Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blackbeard's head

Blackbeard's head

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Original – The pirate Blackbeard's severed head, swinging from the bowsprit of the pirate hunter Robert Maynard's sloop after Blackbeard was captured and killed.

Reason

High resolution, assumingly one of the few surviving illustrations of this particular historic event.

Articles in which this image appears

Blackbeard

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others

Creator

Not certain, possibly Charles Ellms

• Support as nominator --Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:13, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
• I'm not really seeing the encyclopedic value of this, since it's from over 100 years after the event. The 18th-century illustrations in the article would seem to have more value. Chick Bowen 20:55, 26 November 2011 (UTC)

• The ones of him himself have good EV for the man. The event (Blackbeard's head swinging in the wind after his capture) may not have any contemporary illustrations. Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

• Perhaps, but, as a picture from years after the event, the EV of this isn't quite the same. Combine this with the fact that it's pretty unremarkable as artwork and you have a rather underwhelming nom. J Milburn (talk) 16:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose low EV, not from a notable artist. Clegs (talk) 09:36, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose Just NN Brookie :) - he's in the building somewhere! ^(Whisper...) 14:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 14:12, 3 December 2011 (UTC)