This French etching from 1789 depicts one of the most important events from the early phase of the French Revolution and illustrates the event as it was communicated within France the year the event occurred. A historic document in a high resolution file. English translation provided at image hosting page. Restored version of
Image:Storming the bastille.jpg.
Oppose As far as depicting the storming of the bastille, these water colour blobs have zero encyclopaedic value. Not really sure what this has to do with Bernard-René de Launay either, again, I do not know which blob is him. --
Uncle Bungle (
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20:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC) (forgot to sign in)reply
Support The dating of this places it within months of the actual storming. My experience with this sort of thing would suggest that an engraving of an event from the same year was probably created within two weeks of the event itself, the lag time being mainly to actually do the engraving. The hand-tinting is not very well done, that probably indicates this was very mass-market, being distributed widely. In short, very highly encyclopedic. I would suggest that the opposer has not actually zoomed in. There's detail there.
Shoemaker's Holiday (
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17:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)reply
This French etching from 1789 depicts one of the most important events from the early phase of the French Revolution and illustrates the event as it was communicated within France the year the event occurred. A historic document in a high resolution file. English translation provided at image hosting page. Restored version of
Image:Storming the bastille.jpg.
Oppose As far as depicting the storming of the bastille, these water colour blobs have zero encyclopaedic value. Not really sure what this has to do with Bernard-René de Launay either, again, I do not know which blob is him. --
Uncle Bungle (
talk)
20:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC) (forgot to sign in)reply
Support The dating of this places it within months of the actual storming. My experience with this sort of thing would suggest that an engraving of an event from the same year was probably created within two weeks of the event itself, the lag time being mainly to actually do the engraving. The hand-tinting is not very well done, that probably indicates this was very mass-market, being distributed widely. In short, very highly encyclopedic. I would suggest that the opposer has not actually zoomed in. There's detail there.
Shoemaker's Holiday (
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17:47, 27 August 2008 (UTC)reply