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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Karanacs 16:04, 27 July 2010 [1].

Edmund Evans

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Nominator(s): Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Edmund Evans was a Victorian colour printer and wood engraver, most notable for his collaborations with Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott andKate Greenaway. During the course of researching illustrations for childrens literature, I noticed Evans name mentioned repeatedly but with little information associated with him beyond his printing techniques. I decided the research Evans, and the result is this article, which began as a single sentence stub. Biographical information about Evans is scarce, and I've used the sources that exist. Many thanks to those who helped me along the way. Enjoy! Truthkeeper88 (talk) 19:37, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sources comments: Sources look excellent subject to minor fixes:-

  • Footnotes
    • 19: "p. 32" needs a space
    • Same problem with fns 42, 48 and 54
    • 55: page range requires dash not hyphen
  • Sources
    • General point: retrieval dates are not considered necessary in the case of Google book links
    • Ruari McLean 1967: publisher location missing. I believe the publisher of the first edition was Clarendon Press rather than OUP but I may be wrong.
      • According to the title page it is indeed Oxford at the Clarendon Press, but the copyright page shows only Oxford University Press. Not sure which to use. The rest are fixed. Thanks for finding them. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:10, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brianboulton (talk) 16:40, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support I have been involved with the article for a while, mainly on the talk page, & have made detailed comments today there, which have all been settled, with one that I'm sure will be shortly. A very good article reaching areas to do with printing, book illustration & later 19th century children's literature that we don't cover well (unlike the 18th century & early 19th with Awadewit's stuff of course). Meets FA standards. Johnbod (talk) 21:26, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support with a couple of (relatively minor) questions:
  • Does 'he printed the "most memorable body of illustrated books for children" in the Victorian era' refer only to Britain or to English-language works (the context isn't clear from the quote)? While I'm not sure such a poll has ever been conducted, I'd be fairly confident that any "name a memorable Victorian-period illustrated children's book" survey would produce an overwhelming majority for Struwwelpeter;
  • The "Later work and retirement" section is confusing; it has him retiring in 1892, but it still has him working in 1902 on The Tale of Peter Rabbit; did he come out of retirement for it? – iridescent 18:26, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes this is confusing - the sources aren't clear when he quit his engraving work. Reading between the lines, I suspect it was a semi-retirement. Will try to tease more out of the sources , otherwise be more clear. Good points. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 21:55, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English entry on picturebooks says:

In the last decades of the century Caldecott, along with Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane, helped transform the toy book into something like the modern picturebook. All three were recruited by the printer and engraver Edmund Evans, who not only had an eye for talented illustrators but also possessed the means to render their designs accurately and sensitively through the technique of wood engraving in colour.

Another quote from the book under illustration in children’s books

Edmund Evans, who had printed Richard Doyle’s pictures for William Allingham’s poem In Fairyland in a range of subtle colours in 1870, was the key figure to whom the trio of great illustrators of the end of the century, Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott, owed recognition, encouragement and brilliant colour reproduction.

Given his impact, I don't really like term "collaborate" used in the beginning... I'd also like to see something about his impact on the children's books in the intro if possible. (I support the nomination besides that though=D)Smallman12q (talk) 19:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've looked at several academic sites and they use the term collaboration...so thats fine.Smallman12q (talk) 20:26, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To add more details if you like.Smallman12q (talk) 23:06, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Good catch. The 1885 looked like 1883 - I've fixed it. According to this and to Evans (page 58) himself, Caldecott finished in 1885, so it's about seven years. Caldecott died in 1886. I'd prefer not to use these sources because they're lecture notes for a Children's Literature course. I've used the best scholarly secondary sources I can find for this article. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 23:29, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
That's fine...it's a 300 course from a reputable university...but we can do without them. Anyways I have few more suggestions:

For most of the early nineteenth century, colour book illustrations had meant colouring by hand, but the development of mechanical colour printing, especially by Edmund Evans, brought an immense improvement in coloured picture-books for children in the last quarter of the century.

  • Also, you should have a sentence to point out what Kate, Randolph, and Walter were doing for a living prior to working with/for Edmund. p164-165 has some details

Other than that...I'm done reviewing the article=D. Images are fine...and I'm okay with the removal of extra sources provided everything has at least 1 citation. Hope my comments have helped(...and weren't overkill).Smallman12q (talk) 02:17, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

    • Added the information about blank pages - it's in Evans' book, so I used that as a source.
    • Added the information about hand coloring and his impact.
    • Added that Greenaway was designing greeting cards (it's in the source already cited); and that Caldecott was designing magazine covers (also in the source cited). The article mentions that Crane was illustrating yellow backs with Crane, so much more takes the focus off Evans onto Crane.
    • Thanks for the sources - these are helpful and will be put to good use in the articles about the individual illustrators. Also thanks for the review - the article is definitely improved. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 02:53, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support All the issues I raised have been resolved. Looks FA quality to me=D. Great work Truthkeeper!Smallman12q (talk) 12:17, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Images are fine, I would prefer that the copyright status in both the US and the country of origin are given, thus the images can be moved to commons to benefit other language projects {{PD-US}} & {{PD-UK}} would seem appropriate in most instances. Fasach Nua (talk) 07:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I just had a run-through and did some housekeeping. The following would best be tidied up first.
  • scanned from a book; added the source to the file.
  • fixed
  • fixed, I believe. I used the University of Florida permalink which points to the book and added the page number where the image is. I hope that's correct.
Otherwise like Fasach said, the copyrights would be fine. Jappalang (talk) 07:53, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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