Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Franklin Pierce

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Sep 2014 at 08:53:35 (UTC)

Reason: A fine portrait by Mathew Brady. I should note this is a daguerreotype (or, more specifically, a relatively-contemporaneous albumen photo of a daguerreotype, which is good, because daguerreotypes degrade rather badly over time). Pierce died in 1869, before more modern photography became common, of course, but daguerreotypes are a somewhat strange-looking medium to anyone used to more modern images. Still, it's a photograph of a very notable person who lived in a period where we couldn't expect more modern photography.
Articles in which this image appears: Franklin Pierce et al.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People/Political
Creator: Mathew Brady, restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:53, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmm.... I think this is one of the situations where I'd think an engraving would work a bit better. I support this nomination, but still question the assumption that photographs are necessarily better than other media. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:49, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Depended on the engraving. I didn't see any good ones. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:02, 16 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]