Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/William Blake

 
Original - Poet and painter William Blake, self-portrait from Songs of Innocence and Experience, published 1794.
Reason
Self-portrait in profile from Songs of Innocence and Experience, published 1794. Retained the slightly out of frame coloration of the original; Blake reputedly did such work by hand himself. Restored version of File:William Blake.jpg. Note that the pencil note on the unedited file is dated 1863, hence not by Blake himself.
Articles this image appears in
William Blake, Etching#Variants:_aquatint.2C_soft-ground_and_relief_etching
Creator
William Blake

Not promoted - no consensus. --jjron (talk) 11:49, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]