Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Melton Prior - Illustrated London News - The Transvaal War - General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed.jpg
The Transvaal War: General Sir George Colley at the Battle of Majuba Mountain Just Before He Was Killed[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 5 Sep 2010 at 20:10:34 (UTC)
- 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)
- Support. Nice restoration, good EV. Kaldari (talk) 20:46, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
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)