Wiki143:Featured picture candidates/Ministry of all the Talents

The Ministry of All the Talents

File:Charon's Boat.jpg

Original - James Gilray satirises the breakup of the Ministry of All the Talents, the government of Britain from 1806 to 1807, by showing them as doomed spirits being punted across the Acheron to Hell. The Ministry of All the Talents was made up of ministers from a variety of parties in the interest of national unity; however, after a year, infighting over reform of the restrictions placed on Catholics caused the government to break up.

Reason

James Gilray is a major satirist/cartoonist, and, in the late 18th and early 19th century, if you were a politician, you knew you had it made when Gilray satirised you (even though it would inevitably be a pretty nasty joke). I saw that we had this, my jaw dropped.

We really should make this an FP.

Articles this image appears in

Charon, Ministry of All the Talents

Creator

James Gilray

• Support as nominator --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 05:36, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment By the way, there's quite a lot of satire going on in that page, I hope you'll forgive me if I just direct you to the image page, which attempts to untangle the caricatures. It's one of Gilray's most complex. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 06:08, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support Great image. Good EV if you have some time to really study it. Makeemlighter (talk) 05:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support. Wonderful job with the image page description, which is, of course, the most important place for contextual information to go (rather than just in the FP nom).--ragesoss (talk) 03:27, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 13:40, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted File:Charon's_Boat.jpg --Wronkiew (talk) 04:29, 21 January 2009 (UTC)