Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Deluge - Gustave Doré

 
Original - From Gustave Doré's illustrations of the story of Noah's Ark: Doomed men and beasts try desperately to save their children as God floods the world.
Reason

It's by Gustave Doré, usually considered a master engraver, and scanned at very, very high resolution. As I now have a genuine original-plate Victorian printing of the Doré Bible, there will be a number of plates from this, but I will try and choose just the best 10-20% for FP.

This image is a powerful depiction of the doomed men and beasts in the story of Noah's Ark trying desperately and futilely to save their children. A much-lower-resolution version of this was already used throughout Wikipedia (I've replaced it), this high-res version improves on that, while retaining the encyclopedic value.

Articles this image appears in
Gustave Doré, Antediluvian, Deluge (mythology), Noach (parsha), Mythical origins of language (Eh, well, I didn't add it here, I just replaced the lower-res one.), Banishment in the Bible. I have added it to Noah's Ark.
Creator
Gustave Doré

Promoted Image:Gustave Doré - The Holy Bible - Plate I, The Deluge.jpg --Noodle snacks (talk) 06:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]