Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Stitching the Standard

Stitching the Standard

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Original – Stitching the Standard by British artist Edmund Leighton, 1911. The painting shows a nameless damsel on the battlements of a medieval castle finishing a standard or pennant with a black eagle on a gold background. In a time of peace the woman has taken her needlework into the daylight away from the bustle of the castle.

Reason: One of the less known paintings. Digitized by Sotheby's before disappearance in another private collection.
Articles in which this image appears: Stitching the Standard, Edmund Leighton, Chivalry
FP category for this image: Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Edmund Leighton

Support as nominator – Brandmeister^talk 20:16, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Holy Roman Empire, 1400

Support – Pretty. Is it a flag of the Holy Roman Empire (below right)? Sca (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Maybe, but I haven't seen a single source about that while creating an article on this painting. Brandmeister^talk 22:39, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hafspajen (talk) 22:59, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- KTC (talk) 23:26, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Was considering nominating this a while ago. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:56, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - cracking and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Alborzagros (talk) 06:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{That comment is right out of a chronosynclastic infundibulum. Sca (talk) 14:45, 17 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

^{Is it? I thought yet it was Mary Poppins} Hafspajen (talk) 17:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{You obviously haven't studied medieval history. Sca (talk) 01:30, 18 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

Who, me? Hafspajen (talk) 14:52, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Which is probably redundant at this time, but I do so love to vote. I could totally use that image in my Love and Death in Literature class. Am I correct that is a battle standard? It is unclear (to me) in the composition if it square or not. HullIntegrity^\ talk / 15:17, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Can be also a castle pennant (for display on castle towers, etc). Since the source at Stitching the Standard mentions various titles, my speculation is that Leighton didn't title this painting himself. Brandmeister^talk 17:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Leighton-Stitching the Standard.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:27, 26 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]