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•  Info created by Charles-Antoine Cambon - restored, uploaded, and nominated by Adam Cuerden -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:53, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Adam Cuerden (talk) 16:53, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Benh (talk) 18:09, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:55, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Andrei (talk) 06:10, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 06:50, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 16:24, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Question is there any way to know if the background color is original or if the paper is just very yellow from aging? Buidhe (talk) 19:55, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
  • @Buidhe: There's prints - not of this, admittedly - where they have a yellow lithograph layer to evoke this sort of art, e.g. [1] [2], [3], [4], [5]. The colour of the paper is usually somewhere in the yellow/brown spectrum, with exceptions, and the same is seen in the lithographs aping the style, and some of said lithographs are quite close to this which methinks is a good sign of it being an intentional choice. It's not considered a prestige art style nowadays, so it's seen a lot less, but it has a history dating back to - well, I can find examples from the early 16th century, so... In the 19th century, I'm aware of Alfred Waud as another prolific user of it, e.g. [6], likewise William Waud and a few others. And all descriptions of the technique mention using "buff" paper, which is the term used for various shades of yellow. I believe this technique was kind of big in this period because it was particularly good for lithography - the contrast between white areas, dark areas, and midtones are very obvious. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:21, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
    • Very interesting, thanks for the explanation!  Support Buidhe (talk) 20:08, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Seems good to me. Cmao20 (talk) 14:32, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

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Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:15, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

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