Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Currier and Ives Brooklyn Bridge
Appearance
- Reason
- Chromolithograph of the Brooklyn Bridge shortly after construction. Engineering specs in caption. Very high resolution. Restored version of File:Currier and Ives Brooklyn Bridge.jpg. Smaller version available for viewers with slow connection speeds at File:Currier and Ives Brooklyn Bridge2 courtesy copy.jpg
- Articles this image appears in
- Brooklyn Bridge, History of Brooklyn
- Creator
- Currier and Ives
- Support as nominator --DurovaCharge! 03:50, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- We can has caption plz? MER-C 04:23, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- (blush) Done. DurovaCharge! 04:37, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support Grainy looking, but also very detailed. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:53, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- Graininess is part of the lithographic technique: acid is used to burn small pits in a metal plate, and the longer the acid is left on, the more pits. These pits hold the ink, and are visible - you guessed it - as graininess in the final image. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 16:13, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support Interesting, good EV. That must be Trinity Church in the background. Fletcher (talk) 02:20, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support. High quality, good detail. SpencerT♦Nominate! 01:21, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
- Support Good EV. Makeemlighter (talk) 00:21, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
Promoted File:Currier and Ives Brooklyn Bridge2.jpg MER-C 10:32, 21 March 2009 (UTC)