Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Our New First Lord at Sea (2nd nomination)

Our New 'First Lord' at Sea

 * Reason:The previous nomination here failed because people deemed it just a "cartoon". This "cartoon" was one of the most famous types of cartoons and was the pinnacle of political satire. Not only does it deal with a very serious event in British history, but that event has been immortalized in such items as the H. M. S. Pinafore. 18th and 19th century British lit is my subject area, as you can see on my user page. I stand by the notability and importance of images like this, and that is why I am renoming this image.
 * Articles this image appears in:H. M. S. Pinafore, William Henry Smith (politician), Punch (magazine)
 * Creator:John Tenniel, original uploader and nominator Adam Cuerden


 * Support as nominator --Ottava Rima (talk) 20:11, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Caption was a little long in the original, so I trimmed out a line (', with a character given a lengthy song satirising Smith's life that ended: "Stick close to your desks, and never go to sea / And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee!" and which gave him the nickname "Pinafore Smith"') along with a few minor changes. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:15, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

-- wadester 16  03:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Durova  297 20:27, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. GerardM (talk) 13:36, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Are the crease lines (or whatever the technical name for them is) supposed be be there? See vertically on the taller guy's arm and horizontally through his knees. Sasata (talk) 07:00, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Those are the gaps between the woodblocks. They're part of the woodblock engraving process, though nowadays I tend to remove them and go with artistic intent over image as it is. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 184 FCs served 07:22, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Shoemaker's Holiday Over 188 FCs served 12:18, 11 August 2009 (UTC)