Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Chickahominy - Sumner's Upper Bridge
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- Reason
- Military artists are such wonderful first-hand accounts of things we'd otherwise not have a good record of. This is a lovely, valuable watercolour.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Chickahominy River, Edwin Vose Sumner, Peninsula Campaign
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/History/American_Civil_War
- Creator
- William McIlvaine (1813-1867)
- Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden (talk) 17:35, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support Hafspajen (talk) 19:59, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support -- What a lovely watercolor! It is quite detailed for a nighttime scene. The picture illustrates an important issue in the (U.S.) American Civil War, as mentioned in the article on the Chickahominy River. - CorinneSD (talk) 22:42, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support - Great. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:27, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support – historically significant and quite pretty as well. – Juliancolton | Talk 16:02, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
- Support per Corinne above and others. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 01:40, 26 June 2014 (UTC)
Promoted File:William McIlvaine - The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:35, 27 June 2014 (UTC)