Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Battle of the Monitor and Merrimac

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Original - Battle Between the Monitor and Merrimac, from an old wood engraving.

Reason: This is a wooden engraving of one of the most influential naval battles of all time: The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (known also as the Battle of Hampton Roads) . Depicted here is the first battle between ironclad warships, one that resulted in a draw for both the United States Navy and the Confederate Navy. The results of this battle were telling: major naval powers world wide halted construction of their wooden fleets and began the process of converting their navies to ironclad type warships based on the designs used here. While the battle itself predates the use of rapid photography, there are pieces of artwork that commemorate the battle, and this particular piece is large enough for consideration of FP status.
Articles in which this image appears: Battle of Hampton Roads
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator: A.S. Barnes & Company, publisher

Support as nominator --TomStar81 (Talk) 23:55, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose While the quality of the work is excellent, I personally don't find that the wood engraving format particularly shows the battle well. Obviously, something like File:Monitorvirginia.jpg is of lesser quality, yet it shows the overall battle better, IMO. Spencer^T♦C 20:02, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think this image can also be placed in wood engraving. Nergaal (talk) 21:11, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I disagree, I think it should have something that makes it particularly illustrating for an article so general. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:20, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Hardly grabs my attention, doesn't seem to add much to the article, doesn't seem particularly interesting in and of itself... Sorry, just really not FP material to my eyes. J Milburn (talk) 15:22, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:37, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]