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Original – "Your Motherland Will Never Forget" by Joseph Simpson, from Canada in Khaki
Reason
A fine example of WWI Canadian patriotic art from an otherwise unrepresented artist
Articles in which this image appears
Joseph Simpson (artist), Canada in Khaki
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/WWI
Creator
Joseph Simpson, restored by Adam Cuerden
In some ways, I like this one better than The Thin Red Line, but aesthetics are a personal call. This may have to do with the difficulty in getting happy with the restorations - The Thin Red Line felt more difficult, and took a lot of experimentation to get the colours right, because the scan was tinted fairly strongly (as such things go) towards yellow. This one felt like a smoother birth. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:43, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Also, a rather nice depiction of the Canadian Red Ensign, though the shield looks a little odd compared to our Wikipedia depictions; but then, it's pre-standardization. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:46, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I felt The Thin Red Line had good EV for Remembrance poppy, an additional aspect this lacks. Also the digital compression artefacts especially in the background (thanks to the BL for that. 761kB for a 5.4MP file... Really...) are pretty obvious and bothersome to me, although your mileage may vary. - Wolftick (talk) 18:01, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Wolftick: I'd mind that more if it wasn't a halftone image, with pretty much no possibility of getting the original. EVERY copy of this will have a little graininess. Adam Cuerden (talk) 21:55, 3 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:38, 9 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]