Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Edward Gibbon

Edward Gibbon

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Original – Edward Gibbon (1737-94) was an English historian, whose The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is considered a major historical work of the Enlightenment. "Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, at the time its methodology became a model for [all] later historians."

Reason

Appropriate size and high encyclopedic value.

Articles in which this image appears

Edward Gibbon, Historian, Historiography

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers (historian=writer?) or
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering (social sciences?) or
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others

Creator

Henry Walton (painter)

• Support as nominator --Երևանցի ^talk 18:29, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
• Question - What is the original size of the painting? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:24, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

9 in. x 6 1/2 in. (229 mm x 165 mm) [1] --Երևանցի ^talk 01:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support - Seems reasonable in terms of resolution. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:04, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support--Amandajm (talk) 03:52, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

• Support - Not a huge fan of oval cropped images, but this seems to be original. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:03, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
• Support per Adam Nev1 (talk) 18:11, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Edward Gibbon by Henry Walton cleaned.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)