Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lighting through the ages
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Eclairage.jpg/250px-Eclairage.jpg)
- Reason
- Eclairage, plate by Maurice Dessertenne for volume IV (E-G) of the Nouveau Larousse illustré (France, 1898-1907). Is there's anyone here who didn't spend countless hours pouring over illustrations like this in encyclopedias when they were young? And who still does?
- Illustrates high-quality custom-made engravings for encyclopedias, and of course the various means of making light through the ages (prehistory - ca. 1900).
- The way everything is slotted into "Antiquity", "Middle age and modern times", "Contemporary period" and, weirdly, "Japan", just adds to the charm, I feel.
- Articles this image appears in
- Encyclopedia, Maurice Dessertenne
- Creator
- Engraving by Maurice Dessertenne; scanned and restored by Michel Vuijlsteke
- Support as nominator --Michel Vuijlsteke (talk) 23:42, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
- Support GerardM (talk) 13:32, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
- Support per nom. DurovaCharge! 17:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
- Support, per nominator. --Carioca (talk) 20:08, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
- Support: Superb resolution. Could you please fix two small things? There is "debris" to be removed to the left of the 1 and at the bottom right corner. Maedin\talk 20:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Promoted File:Eclairage.jpg ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 22:24, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
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