Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Napoleon III after Death - Illustrated London News, Jan 25, 1873

Napoleon III, After his Death

Napoleon III, soon after his death. After losing the Franco-Prussian War, Napoleon III spent the rest of his life in exile in England. He was haunted by his loss, and his last words, to the doctor attending him, harked back to the battle that ended his time as an emperor: "Were you at Sedan?" From the Illustrated London News of January 25, 1873.

Cropped: No title or caption.

Reason: I love these evocative Victorian engravings, and this is a very good one, and very encyclopædic for discussions of Napoleon III.
Articles this image appears in: Napoleon III
Creator: R & E Taylor, after a photo by Mssrs. Downey

Support as nominator — Vanished user ^talk 14:20, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support - it is really cool, and great quality. However, the text at the bottom of the image is slightly slanted. If someone can fix that, full support. Zakolantern 16:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the caption and title just be cropped off? —Pengo 07:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm afraid I don't have the software to fix this myself. The best way might be to cut the line reading "Illustrated London News Jan 25 1873" - as that seems to be on a slightly different lineup than everything else, then rotating the caption and photo, which seem to be in line with each other, as far as that goes given the funny borders. This is, I fear, typical of Victorian printing. Vanished user ^talk 14:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - The image seems to be level enough. The border lines themselves are pretty wobbly. So I've made a cropped version with no rotation. —Pengo 06:38, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      - That works. Vanished user ^talk 14:23, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Good historic image, highy encyclopaedic and no discernible flaws from what I can see. Chris Buttigieg 21:20, 15 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose even though the image is interesting and the scan of good quality. My concern is how well this image illustrates the subject: we're looking at a horizontal profile of the face of a dead body-- does this really effectively illustrate Napoleon III the man? Spikebrennan 14:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Per Chris Buttigieg Bewareofdog 22:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I oppose the edit, although I still support the original. Removing the text lessens the enc value. Zakolantern 23:15, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm. I could always re-scan the text, straightened, then just mix the two images. I think I will! Vanished user ^talk 21:13, 17 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I present: Alternate 2. Vanished user ^talk 04:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate 2 - rescanned, text straightened as best I could.

Oppose: Can someone explain how this image better illustrates Napoleon III]? Since it doesn't, the image does not fulfill all criteria for Fp. --Kalyan 13:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, it provides an awfully good illustration for the section on his death... Vanished user ^talk 19:55, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's a bit of an immaterial argument Kaylan; I would have thought it self-evident that it illustrates his death. Chris Buttigieg 20:43, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that the argument is immaterial-- the purported subject matter is Napoleon III, not Corpse of the late Napoleon III. Spikebrennan 18:34, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: I don't think this is Wikipedia's best work. This type of illustration would be good to include in the article, but I don't think it's worthy of FA status due to the lacking illustration of the subject. DMCer 03:59, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:38, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]