Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:M Gerards Kruispoort R01.jpg
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File:M Gerards Kruispoort R01.jpg, not featured[edit]
Voting period ends on 8 Oct 2009 at 18:58:59 (UTC)
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Info created by Marcus Gerards (1562) - scanned by MJJR - uploaded by MJJR - nominated by MJJR -- MJJR (talk) 18:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC). -- Detail of the first reliable town map of late medieval Bruges (1562). It is one of the finest examples of 16th century town mapping in Europe and a major source for the history of Bruges.
Support -- MJJR (talk) 18:58, 29 September 2009 (UTC)- Support -- Tseno Maximov (talk) 22:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Weak oppose While the quality is certainly there, the thin lines and lack of color make the picture look rather ordinary when compared to, say File:Quad Flandria.jpg. -- JovanCormac 07:26, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Comment The thin lines are characteristic for an etching. About the lack of colour: of this particular map only one (very badly preserved) copy is hand coloured, all the other original prints are not coloured. On Commons you can find coloured details of the map of Marcus Gerards, but those are modern reproductions and not originals. -- MJJR (talk) 15:18, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- Support -- strong encyclopaedic value, it is good that all kinds of material find their way to the featured pictured. GerardM (talk) 10:31, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
- Support Using the historical evaluation criteria of FP suggests that wow factor isn't required per se (and it's a matter of taste, I'm a bit wowed by it). ++Lar: t/c 14:32, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
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