Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson

Voting period ends on 28 Jul 2024 at 16:20:41 (UTC)

Original – Helen Hunt Jackson, circa 1884

Reason: A fine portrait of a notable author.
Articles in which this image appears: Helen Hunt Jackson, et al.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator: Charles F. Conly, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 16:20, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 18:32, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:17, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support but note minor fleck of dust near the viewer's-left bulge of her hair. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:09, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Crisco 1492: Should be fixed after this upload goes through, presuming I'm looking at the same fleck. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 18:15, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yep, that got it! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:09, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question The wall on the right is strange. I guess it is like this in all prints that you've found. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Charlesjsharp: That's the edge of a, like, column or pillar? It's definitely a real object. You can see it better in a different image (sadly unavailable at a decent size) from the photographic session - I'm going to call that the "NYPL" image, for convenience. We could crop it: some of the publication uses crop or edit it out - [1] for example, which is the thumbnail for [2] is a half-tone print that crops rather harshly on the right. Likewise, there's a very harsh crop at [3], [4] - which I'd guess are photogravures or something else that degrades the image, because they're definitely worse quality than the photographic print I restored. I think they're the same image, but given I can barely tell the NYPL is different (look at the thumb and lack of wool on the table), I don't want to discount there being a third image that they were based on. Other copies like the Emily Dickenson Museum one appear to be a copy of the half-tone print from the LOC.

There may (have been?) other images in that session. I think it's a drawing, but [5] looks a lot like the images from this session, but with a hand pose that blocks her face. It's definitely a drawing in File:Helen Hunt Jackson (The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review, 1893).png and [6]. If that is based on a photo - and I can't see why you'd move the hand to block view of the face - the hand position likely blocks it from consideration, quirky though it may be. Meanwhile [7] - while composited - may indicate the existence of a standing photo of her. Possibly the same as this, but I'm starting to lose track of all these images.[8] has some thumbnails, including a few of a very young Jackson. All very small.

We're nearing the end. Abandoning Conly to see what's out there, we can immediately abandon the goblin-faced terrible artwork in "A Short History of England's and America's Literature". There's another mediocre sketch on the Library of Congress.

Finally, there's this from the Huntington, probably the best of the non-Conly photos that's available at a decent size. [9] is similar. This book has a lovely image of her, but I don't know where they got it from.

Hope this helps! Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 00:08, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just to note, [10] does have the book cover image; probably cropped. Tineye indicates it was on JSTOR at some point? Honestly, if somone has the book, it'd probably be easier to check the photograph credit. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 01:51, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks for all the detail; clearly just a shadow from the window which should not be removed. Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Carlosmarkos2345 (talk) 01:48, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Choliamb (talk) 14:38, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]