Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Peter Treveris - engraving of Trepanation for Handywarke of surgeri 1525

Engraving of trepanation by Peter Treveris for the 1525 book, "Handywarke of surgeri"

Original

Reason: It's crude, like most 16th century engravings, but damn me if it doesn't grab you and pull you in.
Proposed caption: 1525 engraving by Peter Treveris, from the Handywarke of surgeri. Trepanation was the practice of drilling holes in the skull, for various reasons, some justified and others not. In 1525, when this engraving was made, there were no anaesthetics, so the best the unfortunate patient could hope for was passing out drunk. Nonetheless, the survival rate was quite high.
Articles this image appears in: Trepanation
Creator: Peter Treveris

Support as nominator Vanished user ^talk 09:32, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The book's caption needs to be cropped from the image. It would be better to have the original source, which may be of higher quality and contain more examples than the two presented in this book. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-10-30 14:20Z
- Well, yes, but it's also a rare and no doubt extremely valuble manuscript from 1525. Also, to be honest, most of the late 15th/early 16th century engravings aren't particularly interesting as art: Of about a couple hundred or so examples, it was only these two and Image:John Bydell - Engraving from the Goodly Primer.png that really seemed to rise above the others in interest. All three of them are odd and grotesque - I wonder what that says about me? I don't object to cutting the caption, if you like, but I'm going to pass out for a bit now. Vanished user ^talk 14:36, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom--Mbz1 14:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support and trim the book's caption. Does this need tilt correction? Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 16:13, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Conditional~~ Support don't think it does need the tilt corrected, ~~although the trim is essential in my opinion - I'll change my vote to full support once it's done.~~ Cheers. --Mad Tinman 16:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Caption removed. Vanished user ^talk 18:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Now that that's handled, my vote was changed to support. --Mad Tinman 18:24, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nip/tuck, eh.--Svetovid 20:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good heavens. (Seriously though, I wonder what the reaction would be to having this on the main page...) -- Chris B • talk 14:04, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Probably something like this discussion. Thank goodness for the medical and content disclaimers. MER-C 04:56, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support Perfect for the day. --antilived^{T | C | G} 07:11, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Compelling - the image describes the procedure beyond what words can do. Royalbroil 11:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support and comment. Maybe a bit more should be cropped off the left so that it's consistent with the right. Spikebrennan 16:59, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Peter Treveris - engraving of Trepanation for Handywarke of surgeri 1525.png MER-C 03:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]