Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lighting through the ages

Lighting through the ages

 * Reason:Eclairage, plate by Maurice Dessertenne for volume IV (E-G) of the Nouveau Larousse illustré (France, 1898-1907). Is there's anyone here who didn't spend countless hours pouring over illustrations like this in encyclopedias when they were young? And who still does?
 * Illustrates high-quality custom-made engravings for encyclopedias, and of course the various means of making light through the ages (prehistory - ca. 1900).
 * The way everything is slotted into "Antiquity", "Middle age and modern times", "Contemporary period" and, weirdly, "Japan", just adds to the charm, I feel.


 * Articles this image appears in: Encyclopedia, Maurice Dessertenne
 * Creator: Engraving by Maurice Dessertenne; scanned and restored by Michel Vuijlsteke


 * Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 23:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support GerardM (talk) 13:32, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Durova Charge! 17:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support, per nominator. --Carioca (talk) 20:08, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: Superb resolution. Could you please fix two small things?  There is "debris" to be removed to the left of the 1 and at the bottom right corner.   Mae din \talk 20:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

~  ωαdεstεr 16  «talkstalk» 22:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)