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Original - Early landscape of Jamaica in watercolor, ink, and pencil. Created beteween 1808 and 1816.
Reason
Working a bit to correct systemic bias: if promoted this will be our first FP of Jamaica. Watercolor, ink, and pencil from the British colonial period. Restored version of File:William Berryman Plantain Walk.jpg. Also compressed courtesy copy for viewers with slow connection speeds at File:William Berryman Plantain Walk2 courtesy copy.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
William Berryman, History of Jamaica
Creator
William Berryman
  • Support – A great piece of work from Durova. Hopefully, I can get my Jamaica one done soon. NW (Talk) 02:48, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. A wonderful composition, nicely restored. Will this really be the first FP of Jamaica? Astounding.--ragesoss (talk) 15:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Really don't see any EV in the article/section it is used in which deals largely with the British use of African slave labour and the subsequent uprisings by the slaves - neither subject is depicted in this painting. It seems that this is only getting promoted because we don't currently have an FP from Jamaica - a very poor reason to promote --Fir0002 09:44, 5 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hm, would you accept it if the artist had a biography? And/or could replace it at History of Jamaica with a different work by the same artist, to depict the conditions of slavery at that time.
  • Support Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 03:38, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support GerardM (talk) 16:14, 6 July 2009 (UTC) .. We have pleanty of landscapes, city panarama's etc that give an impression about what a landscape looks like. This image gives an historic impression of Jamaica. There are classic images like this from other countries and as such this is FP material. The fact that it helps offset our existing bias is a definite boon.[reply]

Promoted File:William Berryman Plantain Walk2.jpg --wadester16 03:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]