Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vegetable lamb

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Apr 2011 at 23:05:57 (UTC)

Original - A diagram of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, a legendary zoophyte believed to grow sheep as fruit. It was historically used as an explanation for the origin of cotton.

Reason

A good picture of the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary. It is high quality and provides much historical context.

Articles in which this image appears

Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, Cotton

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others

Creator

Mgiganteus1

• Support as nominator --InverseHypercube 23:05, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support I love the image, any chance of a higher quality scan, though? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support High EV and decent scan. Higher resolution would be nice indeed. I'm thinking April Fools next year? Jujutacular ^talk 18:43, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
• Support. J Milburn (talk) 23:30, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
• Comment Thank you for the support! I didn't upload the image, so I can't get a higher-resolution scan, nor can I see how it would benefit the image much. Out of curiosity: what does EV mean? Expected value? Thanks. InverseHypercube 06:26, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Encyclopedic V. Nergaal (talk) 17:13, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

• Weak oppose At 902 pixels small indeed. Brandmeister t 12:27, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

• Support Ok now. Brandmeister t 09:00, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

• Weak support this is soooo eyecatching... but the quality is much lower than ideal. Nergaal (talk) 17:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
• Comment Original uploader here. I can get a better scan tomorrow, although I'm not sure there's much detail to be gained. mgiganteus1 (talk) 01:29, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Awesome! More resolution is always better. Looking forward to supporting it! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 10:56, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Higher res scan uploaded. mgiganteus1 (talk) 12:07, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

• Weak oppose. This is a 19th-century copy of a Renaissance original. The original book survives in a number of rare books libraries around the world. Since I think the original would have greater value than the copy, I can't support this one, even though the visual concept is such an arresting one. Chick Bowen 16:12, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
• Note on authorship: can we assume that this was originally drawn by Johann Zahn, the author of the 1696 work? Or is authorship unknown? Jujutacular ^talk 20:51, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

My source (Tree Ferns by M.F. Large J.E. Braggins) only has this to say: "Figure 6. The barometz or vegetable lamb, from Lee (1887), redrawn from Johann Zahn's Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica Notabilium ac Mirabilium Sciendorum, in Qua Mundi Mirabilis Oeconomia,...Norimbergae, 1696." mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:32, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

• Support It's a simple drawing, I don't really see much improvement on the image's clarity with the new scan. Though the higher quality scan makes it more in line with the rules.--Nanoman657 (talk) 12:56, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Clarification of authorship before closing, please. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:25, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

• Mgiganteus1 left a note above, it seems we have no way of being sure of authorship. Jujutacular ^talk 03:36, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Vegetable lamb (Lee, 1887).jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:56, 9 May 2011 (UTC)