Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Plantain Walk, Jamaica

Plantain Walk, Jamaica

Original - Early landscape of Jamaica in watercolor, ink, and pencil. Created beteween 1808 and 1816.

Reason: Working a bit to correct systemic bias: if promoted this will be our first FP of Jamaica. Watercolor, ink, and pencil from the British colonial period. Restored version of File:William Berryman Plantain Walk.jpg. Also compressed courtesy copy for viewers with slow connection speeds at File:William Berryman Plantain Walk2 courtesy copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: William Berryman, ~~History of Jamaica~~
Creator: William Berryman

Support as nominator --Durova^{273 featured contributions} 16:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Per feedback from Fir0002 I have created a separate article for the artist, and restored and substituted a different work by the same artist at the history of Jamaica article. Will be contacting reviewers in case they wish to change their review. Durova²⁷³ 18:46, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 02:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 19:39, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support – A great piece of work from Durova. Hopefully, I can get my Jamaica one done soon. NW (Talk) 02:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A wonderful composition, nicely restored. Will this really be the first FP of Jamaica? Astounding.--ragesoss (talk) 15:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Really don't see any EV in the article/section it is used in which deals largely with the British use of African slave labour and the subsequent uprisings by the slaves - neither subject is depicted in this painting. It seems that this is only getting promoted because we don't currently have an FP from Jamaica - a very poor reason to promote --Fir0002 09:44, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Hm, would you accept it if the artist had a biography? And/or could replace it at History of Jamaica with a different work by the same artist, to depict the conditions of slavery at that time.
  - Created a biography for the artist. Durova²⁷³ 20:24, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Still don't really find much EV in an article about the painter unless this image is typically associated to the painter (eg the Mona Lisa for Da Vinci) or is typical of his work (cubism for Picasso). That said I suppose it has some EV in William Berryman so I'll switch to Weak Oppose --Fir0002 11:11, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - A definitive works standard cannot be applicable to an artist whose entire life's work went unpublished for two centuries, and whose first museum exhibition occurred in 2007. Durova²⁷³ 16:06, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still support, even after changes in scope. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support GerardM (talk) 16:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC) .. We have pleanty of landscapes, city panarama's etc that give an impression about what a landscape looks like. This image gives an historic impression of Jamaica. There are classic images like this from other countries and as such this is FP material. The fact that it helps offset our existing bias is a definite boon.[reply]

Promoted File:William Berryman Plantain Walk2.jpg --wadester 16 03:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]