Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Edward Gibbon

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OriginalEdward Gibbon (1737-94) was an English historian, whose The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is considered a major historical work of the Enlightenment. "Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, at the time its methodology became a model for [all] later historians."
Reason
Appropriate size and high encyclopedic value.
Articles in which this image appears
Edward Gibbon, Historian, Historiography
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers (historian=writer?) or
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering (social sciences?) or
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Henry Walton (painter)
9 in. x 6 1/2 in. (229 mm x 165 mm) [1] --Երևանցի talk 01:03, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Edward Gibbon by Henry Walton cleaned.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:46, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]