Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cobbe portrait

Cobbe portrait[edit]

Reason

Newly discovered portrait which may be of William Shakespeare from life.

Articles this image appears in

Cobbe portrait, Portraits of Shakespeare

Creator

Anonymous12345

• Support as nominator --Ronnotel (talk) 01:02, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. which may be of.. How certain are we? Is there a source? Synergy 01:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC) Nevermind. I found the info in the article. Synergy 01:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  yes, the back story is fascinating, and goes to why the image is significant. Ronnotel (talk) 01:51, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Support - GerardM (talk) 12:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. We don't have a proximate source given for this image. It was kept in the UK and probably scanned there, so there may be copyright issues based on sweat of the brow.--ragesoss (talk) 17:03, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  The official position of WMF is no copyright can be extended to reproductions of images that have already passed into the public domain. I don't think there is any copyright issue regarding this image. Ronnotel (talk) 17:33, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks. For some reason, I though sweat of the brow stuff was one of those areas where Commons policy was to respect copyright law for both the US and the country of origin.--ragesoss (talk) 20:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

  That was previously the case, but the policies were changed last year after extensive discussions. Kaldari (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Support, although it would be nice to know where the file came from.--ragesoss (talk) 20:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support, nice. Looks vaguely like a younger Stephen Fry. J Milburn (talk) 22:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support - It's probably a crop of this photograph. Regardless, the image is public domain (UK jurisprudence notwithstanding). Kaldari (talk) 22:37, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support per nom. Durova^Charge! 20:23, 12 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support a lovely image to compliment the Chandos portrait which is also featured. Majorly talk 17:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Support' Beautiful picture; as per Majorly above. Cheers. Imperat§ r^(Talk) 17:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Honestly I thought I supported directly after my comment (ooops!). Wonderful image. Synergy 00:30, 17 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Cobbe portrait of Shakespeare.jpg MER-C 09:30, 18 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]