Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Quaternion Eagle from c. 1510

Quaternion Eagle from c. 1510

Original - The double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1510

Reason: The antique image is not only historically important as showing the shields of the member states by rank under the the Holy Roman Empire but also displays a stunning beauty and woodcut technique in the period.
Articles this image appears in: Holy Roman Empire, Counts of Celje, Double-headed eagle, Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire
Creator: It was printed by David de Negker (son of Jost de Negker) in Augsburg, based on a 1510 woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the elder Image:Hans Burgkmair quaternionenadler.jpg. It was uploaded by Commons:User:Michail (en:User:Michail)

Support as nominator --Caspian blue (talk) 19:32, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ Conditional Support~~outstanding image, meets all criteria~~. Just noticed what looks to be some kind of scanning artifact right down the middle, actually pretty obvious I am surprised that I didn't notice it until looking a second time. Could this be cropped out? --Leivick (talk) 20:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Your question is not clear to me. Are you referring to the artifact as "the erected image on the gutter of the book? I think it is a kind of small pop-up page.--Caspian blue (talk) 21:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am referring to the object at the center of the image. Is it really a pop up page? it looks like it has a similar image to the visible pages. Is it not possible that it is a distortion due to scanning. --Leivick (talk) 21:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the image is scanned nor folded by mistake. The image seems like to be taken by a photographer. You can check the fact as looking at the bottom edge of the book.--Caspian blue (talk) 21:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - would prefer a crop that got rid of some of the brown on the left side and the black on the top and bottom right side, but good pic all in all. Intothewoods29 (talk) 20:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I considered to do so, but the mounted wood is also beautiful and cropping could lose the handwriting on the bottom edge.--Caspian blue (talk) 21:10, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support even with some artifacts this image deserves to be FP, and is above basic criteria. M.K. (talk) 14:37, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per above --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 15:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per above. Bewareofdog 16:54, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice image, high quality -- RedCoat10 • talk 20:32, 15 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Quaternion Eagle by Jost de Negker.jpg MER-C 08:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note - caption was gibberish, now corrected. The father of David de Negker, the alleged artist, was about 25 in 1510. How come there is no source btw? Johnbod (talk) 16:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]