Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cannon with gabions

 
Original - Cannon with gabions, from a late sixteenth century illustration.
Reason
When illustrating historical concepts it's informative to have illustrations from that period. This comes from an engineering treatise published in 1588. Restored version of File:Sixteenth Century Cannon.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Cannon, Siege#Age_of_gunpowder, Gabion
Creator
Agostino Ramelli

Promoted Image:Sixteenth Century Cannon2.jpg --Muhammad(talk) 06:11, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]