Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Napoleon's exile to Elba3.jpg

Image:Napoleon's exile to Elba3.jpg, not featured

•  Info created by J. Phillips (publisher) - uploaded by Durova - nominated by Durova. Restored version of Image:Napoleon's exile to Elba.jpg. -- Durova (talk) 01:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Durova (talk) 01:59, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Just another old etch. Do you plan to nominate The World History in Pictures? Lycaon (talk) 08:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Ouch. Is there an objection to etching as a medium? Durova (talk) 08:58, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I think that would be cool. The World History in One Picture. Could we open a contest? -- Silfiriel (talk) 17:19, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Aqwis (talk) 17:15, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose No wow. --S23678 (talk) 15:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Support - These sorts of things are very useful for showing the popular attitude of Country X to subject Y, in this case, the English view on Napoleon near the end of the Napoleonic wars. The art is pretty typical of that time, though not, perhaps, reaching the humour and insight of the acknowledged master of political cartooning from that period, James Gillray. However, Gillray was not that active by this point.

I realise that there's going to be more photographers here than historians, but do think through what would be lost by ignoring insight into popular views provided by this kind of work. Also consider this: The 18th and 19th centuries started with the flourishing of cartooning, then illustrated newspapers which provided engravings. If we accept that illustrating subjects relating to the 18th and 19th century is important - well, we aren't going to be able to do it with paintings alone, and we sure as hell aren't going to be able to do much more than the very end of the 19th century with photography. Political cartoons and engravings are all we have to choose from. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:23, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

•  Support As a historian, I can agree with Adam Cuerden. Moreover, the scan is pretty well done. On the other hand, there are several hundreds (!) of that kind of Napoleonic cartoons; should we promote all of them as FP?? -- MJJR (talk) 20:32, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose, nothing wow. Канопус Киля (talk) 14:09, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose As above. --Karelj (talk) 13:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

result: 4 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 19:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)