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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 May 2023 at 08:41:25 (UTC)

a suitable caption for the image
Reason
Okay. First of all, a version of this with lower pixel size, but far more detail exists: File:Charles Darwin by Elliott & Fry, 1874.png. It's restored well, but the Library of Congress version is degraded, and that's... basically a fundamental obstacle.
It's also questionably dated: Harvard says 1874, this says c. 1880. This is kind of a problem when one of the big draws of it was having a date nearer certain books' publication. It was put in Rotogravure as an example. There's no source for it being a rotogravure. It has contrast issues: His face and hair blend into the background, and that's not really an issue in the original. I think we can have multiple FPs of Darwin. Having a frontal portrait, an early portrait - there's many valuable options. However, they need to be the best copy of the image we have at the minimum, and that's not what we have now.
Articles this image appears in
None, though that's my doing.
Previous nomination/s
Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Charles Darwin
Nominator
Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.3% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP!

Delisted --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:41, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]