Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce
Voting period ends on 26 Sep 2014  at 08:53:35 (UTC)
 * Reason:A fine portrait by Mathew Brady. I should note this is a daguerreotype (or, more specifically, a relatively-contemporaneous albumen photo of a daguerreotype, which is good, because daguerreotypes degrade rather badly over time). Pierce died in 1869, before more modern photography became common, of course, but daguerreotypes are a somewhat strange-looking medium to anyone used to more modern images. Still, it's a photograph of a very notable person who lived in a period where we couldn't expect more modern photography.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Franklin Pierce et al.
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/People/Political
 * Creator:Mathew Brady, restoration by Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:53, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Hmmm.... I think this is one of the situations where I'd think an engraving would work a bit better. I support this nomination, but still question the assumption that photographs are necessarily better than other media. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Depended on the engraving. I didn't see any good ones. Adam Cuerden (talk) 19:02, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 12:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)