Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Siege of Strasbourg

"The [Franco-Prussian] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners"

 * Reason:It's one of the better engravings of the war, and, better still, is of a subject that was previously unillustrated on any Wikipedia. It does have a minor printing error in the lower left, but I don't think it's really much of a problem. That said, it could probably be fixed fairly easily depending on the consensus about such manipulation.
 * Proposed caption:"The [ Franco-Prussian ] War: Fall of Strasbourg - Departure of French Prisoners", from the 15 October, 1870 issue of the Illustrated London News The Siege of Strasbourg was a rather one-sided battle, with the German assault only limited by the amount of ammunition they had, and fortresses falling regularly. Napoleon III's capture in the Battle of Sedan on 1 September, 1870 (and the fall of the Second French Empire) meant that no relief was coming, and, though the city held on a while after the news reached them, the relentless forward movement of the Prussian lines eventually forced surrender on the 27th of September.
 * Articles this image appears in:Siege of Strasbourg
 * Creator:Mr. Simpson


 * Support as nominator Adam Cuerden talk 12:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support great scan, lovely quality and interesting -- Ch il dzy  ¤  Ta l k  20:16, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Starting to suffer from 1870s Illustrated London News/Franco-Prussian War engravings fatigue - 1, 2, 3, 4 plus this one from August alone. --jjron 16:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Heh. Right. I'll switch to a different year. Just I have a friend with a strong interest in it, so I gathered a whole lot and sent them to him last Christmas, and am now working through 'em.
 * Question. I may be becoming hard of seeing, but where does it say anything about "Mr Simpson" being the creator? All I can see is AH. --jjron 16:52, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's not on the image - he's named as the artist elsewhere in that issue of the newspaper. My best guess is that A.H. is the engraver who turned Mr. Simpson's art into an engraving, since I have seen an engraving with both a signature and initials - Uthis one. But I really don't know - attribution of Victorian newspapers really is a crapshoot. Adam Cuerden talk 17:57, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support on the assumption that is a printing error and not a munged scan (which is what it looks like). Maybe it would be worth the cleanup. Encyclopedic quality is clear, though. --Dhartung | Talk 18:31, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's like that in the original. I could probably get Graphics lab to fix it. Adam Cuerden talk 18:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support per above. Who would have figured that the Franco-Prussian War would be this well-represented with FPs? Spikebrennan 03:24, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 05:31, 25 August 2007 (UTC)