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The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed

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Original - The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed, by Melton Prior. The Illustrated London News, one of the first newspapers to include images to illustrate its articles, sent both artists and writers out to wars to capture the scenes ongoing there. This scene, illustrating the war better known today as the Boer War, was published in its issue for May 14, 1881.

Reason: Good quality engraving, on-the-spot reporting (admittedly this one is, based on second-hand accounts: The bottom text reads "From notes supplied by officers present to our Special Artist"), and, in addition, we didn't have anything for the Boer War that I saw.
Articles in which this image appears: Battle of Majuba Hill, George Pomeroy Colley, Melton Prior
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/War
Creator: Melton Prior

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:10, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Nice restoration, good EV. Kaldari (talk) 20:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agree, nice restoration, good EV. By a coincident, I saw this illustration in a book just yesterday, weird to see it turn up here the day after. P. S. Burton (talk) 21:45, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support I stopped, stared & clicked. The image was understandable as a thumb and the artwork in the zoom proved to be exceedingly well done. Nice nom. Greg L (talk) 23:28, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Mild oppose Good EV, but I don't find the image eye-catching. I probably wouldn't read the article with this image. Gut Monk (talk) 23:32, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously, this is nominated more for EV than art. Though by no means my favourite engraving from this newspaper (that would be File:Franco-Prussian_War_-_Students_Going_to_Man_the_Barricades_-_Illustrated_London_News_Oct_1_1870.jpg, for the record), as on-the-spot reporting of a notable event in the Boer War, I think it has loads of EV, which makes up for it being fairly average art (For this period, anyway: the Victorian period is noted for very high quality engravings). Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:17, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support per above supports. Sasata (talk) 18:08, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Melton Prior - Illustrated London News - The Transvaal War - General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:41, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]