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There is a photographic reproduction of one of Onfim's drawings on Commons. When I added it to the lead and moved the current lead image (a sketch) into the gallery with the other sketches, I was reverted with the explanation: "sorry, but i see no reason for this unexplained change. i liked the earlier image". I didn't know it needed an explanation: a photo is preferable for showing readers what is being talked about. "I liked the earlier image" is also not an explanation. What is the reason for removing a photograph from the article in favour of all black-and-white line images? Srnec ( talk) 04:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I think this article should be mentioned in Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 14:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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"a picture of a beast with a long neck, pointy ears, and a curly tail. The beast either has an arrow with feathers in its mouth or is spewing fire; one of the accompanying texts (the one below the box) says "I am a wild beast""
In Tuer's 'History of the Horn-Book' https://archive.org/details/b29354195/page/n23/mode/2up
" In his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Dr. Brewer describes the horn-book as an alphabet book or board of oak about nine inches long and five or six wide, on which was printed the alphabet, the nine digits, and sometimes the Lord’s Prayer. “ It had,” says the doctor, “ a handle, and was covered in front with a sheet of thin horn to prevent it being soiled, and the back board was ornamented with a rude sketch of St. George and the Dragon. The board and its horn cover were held together by a narrow frame or border of brass.”"
So Onfim draws a fire-breathing horse: The old English Horn-Book had a
/info/en/?search=Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
This seems to be a remarkable co-incidence. I am aware of some of the significance of St George in Russia.
/info/en/?search=Order_of_St._George
/info/en/?search=Saint_George_and_the_Dragon#/media/File:S.George_(Novgorod,_mid._14_c,_GTG).jpg
Oh, perhaps ignore: I had confused with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9E%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC_(200).gif
2A00:23C8:660A:5A01:C57C:60A0:6646:2FDC ( talk) 21:59, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
A fact from Onfim appeared on Wikipedia's
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There is a photographic reproduction of one of Onfim's drawings on Commons. When I added it to the lead and moved the current lead image (a sketch) into the gallery with the other sketches, I was reverted with the explanation: "sorry, but i see no reason for this unexplained change. i liked the earlier image". I didn't know it needed an explanation: a photo is preferable for showing readers what is being talked about. "I liked the earlier image" is also not an explanation. What is the reason for removing a photograph from the article in favour of all black-and-white line images? Srnec ( talk) 04:46, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
I think this article should be mentioned in Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. -- TeaDrinker ( talk) 14:42, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
/info/en/?search=File:Bb199.gif
"a picture of a beast with a long neck, pointy ears, and a curly tail. The beast either has an arrow with feathers in its mouth or is spewing fire; one of the accompanying texts (the one below the box) says "I am a wild beast""
In Tuer's 'History of the Horn-Book' https://archive.org/details/b29354195/page/n23/mode/2up
" In his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Dr. Brewer describes the horn-book as an alphabet book or board of oak about nine inches long and five or six wide, on which was printed the alphabet, the nine digits, and sometimes the Lord’s Prayer. “ It had,” says the doctor, “ a handle, and was covered in front with a sheet of thin horn to prevent it being soiled, and the back board was ornamented with a rude sketch of St. George and the Dragon. The board and its horn cover were held together by a narrow frame or border of brass.”"
So Onfim draws a fire-breathing horse: The old English Horn-Book had a
/info/en/?search=Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
This seems to be a remarkable co-incidence. I am aware of some of the significance of St George in Russia.
/info/en/?search=Order_of_St._George
/info/en/?search=Saint_George_and_the_Dragon#/media/File:S.George_(Novgorod,_mid._14_c,_GTG).jpg
Oh, perhaps ignore: I had confused with https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9E%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%BC_(200).gif
2A00:23C8:660A:5A01:C57C:60A0:6646:2FDC ( talk) 21:59, 31 July 2022 (UTC)