Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Maritana

Maritana

 * Reason: Heh. God, I haven't used this source of images in ages, but remembered them when dealing with the call for opera-related images. While not, perhaps, what you're used to me doing nowadays, it's impossible for me to get these originals to a scanner (they are not mine) but I can get quite good photocopies, so this is the only way forwards.

By the way, if you're wondering why I'm so active all of a sudden? It seems that when I'm really ill, image restoration is therapeutic. Oh, well, convenient for Wikipedia.
 * Articles this image appears in:Maritana, William Vincent Wallace
 * Creator:Unknown Engraver.


 * Support as nominator --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:21, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support - Looks good, high EV. X clamation point  02:50, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose I'm just not that thrilled with the craftsmanship of the engraver. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 02:07, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It's typical of the period - this was really at the start of the Victorian explosion of popular engraving - this is from what I believe is the first illustrated newspaper, and from only its fourth year - and the quality wasn't yet at the levels they would be at a decade or two later. I think it's still notable for the history: It's the first production of Wallace's best-known opera. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 02:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support High quality, good detail.  Spencer T♦ Nominate! 02:28, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. ~  ωαdεstεr 16  ♣TC♣ 16:37, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: EV is ok, and like Spencer said, high quality and good detail. Btw, sorry to hear that you are ill, Shoemaker's Holiday.   Mae din \talk 17:27, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, though I'm getting better rapidly =) Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 17:59, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 08:20, 12 March 2009 (UTC)