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Original – Composer John Field, 1820, engraving by Anton Wachsmann
Reason
Irish composer John Field is credited as the originator of the piano nocturne. His work was highly regarded by contemporaries and influenced major composers including Frédéric Chopin, Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann.
Articles in which this image appears
John Field (composer), Classical music of the United Kingdom, Music of Ireland, +1
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Anton Wachsmann (de), restored by Bammesk
  • Thanks Adam, I understand. I am going to upload the original from Gallica and then update the file descriptions. I will restore the original and aim for a new nomination. What, if any, cropping of the borders is acceptable? Bammesk (talk) 03:00, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps this isn't the place, but I'll do it here. First of all, the original here is 17th century, which can be very spaced out. But I'll start by walking you through my choices in the Pierre Gaveaux restoration, then we can discuss contrary issues:
  • So, for prints from the 17th century/late 18th, you can often tell exactly where the edges of the printing plate were due to the pressures used in printing. Just inside that edge is usually a good starting point for considering the crop, as generally speaking, the compostions seem to be balanced more within the plate than considering the page outside of it, meaning that the space outside the place is just deadspace.
    However, there's also a trend for extremely spaced out captions. Pierre Gaveaux is a little spaced out, but with the wider margins looks fine.
    Now, the John Field image - the original is mislinked, it's here - has a bit more space between image and caption. It can get worse from here, take [1], which has a tiny little credit right at the bottom. It's also not very good, which is convenient. Then there's [2] - where I'm pretty sure the text at the top is just really beautiful handwriting. But it feels a little uncentred with the caption.
    {{CSS image crop}} exists, and can be helpful here: Include everything using nice wide margins, crop it in articles.
    So, I suppose my point is, there might not be a single right answer; it might be the best choice is to provide a range of variants. The most important thing is to make it clear how it's cropped and what, if anything, was cropped out. Also, I think one should have a fairly maximale restoration uploaded, even if you crop secondarily from there, because you have to consider reuse. If I need to crop the Pierre Gaveaux to fit a specific page aspect, say, for a programme for a performance of his works, I have enough free space to be able to make it work in a lot of use cases. With a very tight crop, you only really have the crop provided. In recent images, one of the reasons the Geraldine Ulmar image - the lead on her page - works with the fairly tight crop is A. I used additional restoration to help fix up the edges for the new crop because seeing the whole edge when you see the mount is very different than little traces of the edges from imperfect straightness, or cropping tighter than needed. and B. we can always zoom back out because that's linked. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.2% of all FPs. Currently celebrating his 600th FP! 19:48, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:55, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]