Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Storming of the Bastille

Storming of the Bastille

Original - French etching from 1789 depicting the storming of the Bastille.

Reason

This French etching from 1789 depicts one of the most important events from the early phase of the French Revolution and illustrates the event as it was communicated within France the year the event occurred. A historic document in a high resolution file. English translation provided at image hosting page. Restored version of Image:Storming the bastille.jpg.

Articles this image appears in

Storming of the Bastille, Public holidays in France, Bernard-René de Launay

Creator

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• Support as conominator --Durova^Charge! 07:11, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support as co-nominator Dendodge|Talk^Contribs 13:14, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Huge EV! Intothewoods29 (talk) 17:08, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose As far as depicting the storming of the bastille, these water colour blobs have zero encyclopaedic value. Not really sure what this has to do with Bernard-René de Launay either, again, I do not know which blob is him. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 20:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC) (forgot to sign in)
• Support The dating of this places it within months of the actual storming. My experience with this sort of thing would suggest that an engraving of an event from the same year was probably created within two weeks of the event itself, the lag time being mainly to actually do the engraving. The hand-tinting is not very well done, that probably indicates this was very mass-market, being distributed widely. In short, very highly encyclopedic. I would suggest that the opposer has not actually zoomed in. There's detail there.Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 17:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I zoomed in, thanks. Maybe it woudl be better without the hand tinting. It's a pretty lousy depiction, and I stand by my opposition. --Uncle Bungle (talk) 20:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Per Shoemaker's Holiday (talk · contribs). Cirt (talk) 20:22, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
• Support per Shoemaker's holiday. Mostlyharmless (talk) 01:45, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Storming the bastille 4.jpg --jjron (talk) 08:19, 3 September 2008 (UTC)