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Views of Wieliczka Salt Mines by Willem Hondius

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Original – Surface and underground views of the Wieliczka Salt Mine. Composite of illustrations to a series of maps of the town and mines of Wieliczka, Poland, engraved in 1645 by Willem Hondius.

ALT 1 – Slightly cropped on the left-hand side

Reason: This image is stitched from four views extracted from high-quality scans of a series of hand-colored copperplate maps of the town and salt mines of Wieliczka, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Poland's major tourist attractions. It provides a detailed depiction of the life and work of men and horses employed in salt mining in the 17th century. You can see miners carving away lumps of rock salt, horse mills powering water pumps and lifts, brine boiling on the surface, men praying in front of an underground altar (sculpted from rock salt), and even one fellow relieving himself against a wall. We don't seem to have any historical illustrations of the salt mines of comparable quality. The original engravings are in public domain and the composite image has a free license.
Articles in which this image appears: Wieliczka Salt Mine
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/Others
Creator: Engravings by Willem Hondius. Composite by Kpalion

Support ALT 1 as nominator — Kpalion^(talk) 05:52, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - very interesting and 11,218 × 8,698 pixels... And the Wieliczka Salt Mine is an absolute famous site ... Also fascinating to look at the details. ‎- They look like ants ... Hafspajen (talk) 14:53, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- - T H - the fury of nature given flesh 16:20, 16 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I really don't like the crop much. I can live with the reassembling - it's a clever way of presenting the different views - but I think it absolutely needs the border to pull it all together, particularly as bits of the border intrude into the image anyway. Would probably support the uncropped version this was uploaded over (presuming the lines of the border are fully inside the crop (e.g. are not cut off by the edge) and there's no stitching issues). Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 06:41, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Adam, not sure the nominator knows how. Will you upload an ATL, and post it? Hafspajen (talk) 09:27, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not on this computer, I fear. It'd chug to a halt if I tried. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:38, 17 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I wasn't able stitch the borders together seamlessly. Later today I will try to make the crop a few pixels tighter, though, so that there are no bits of the border left on the left hand side. I hope this will be at least marginally better. — Kpalion^(talk) 14:25, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid that would probably be worse, as you'd be losing detail on every other image. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:52, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've decided to give it a try anyway. I don't think the loss of detail is that substantial compared to the overall image size. — Kpalion^(talk) 22:07, 18 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Jobas (talk) 16:49, 23 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

None of the images has enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:34, 26 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]