[WikiEN-l] Artists' impressions

[Andrew Gray]

On 18/05/06, Chris Lüer <chris at zandria.net> wrote:
> At 08:24 AM 5/18/2006, Andrew Gray wrote:
>
> >In some circumstances ([[F-19]]!) an "artists impression" might be OR,
> >but in general terms sketching something is no more OR than touching
> >up a photo of it.
>
> ...or than writing about it!
>
> I would like to draw a line at artist's impressions that are clearly
> fictional, though. Such as drawings or paintings of people that died
> centuries before the artist's birth -- they are either fictional or
> based on another representation (and in that case we should include
> the other representation instead).

Hmm, yes. Anything which is a composite of several existing images, or
"drawn from life", is probably fine.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk