Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cobbe portrait

Cobbe portrait

Original - Cobbe portrait, possibly showing William Shakespeare, and publicly announced in 2009

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)
• 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)

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

• Support - GerardM (talk) 12:22, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
• 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)

  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)

  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)

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

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

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

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