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

Our New 'First Lord' at Sea

Original - (reusing old caption but with grammar fixes) There was some surprise when William Henry Smith was promoted to First Lord of the Admiralty by Britain's Queen Victoria. Certainly, he was well know since he was the owner of the WH Smith chain of newsagents and booksellers, and he had served ten years as a politician. Of naval experience, he had none. Gilbert and Sullivan would satirise him mercilessly in H.M.S. Pinafore. However, the satire began before this: this Punch cartoon was created soon after his promotion and set the pattern for later satire against Smith.

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)

• Support per nom. Durova²⁹⁷ 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)

Promoted File:Our New First Lord at Sea.png --wadester16 03:21, 19 August 2009 (UTC)