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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Quaternion Eagle from c. 1510

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Original - The double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1510
Reason
The antique image is not only historically important as showing the shields of the member states by rank under the the Holy Roman Empire but also displays a stunning beauty and woodcut technique in the period.
Articles this image appears in
Holy Roman Empire, Counts of Celje, Double-headed eagle, Armorial of the Holy Roman Empire
Creator
It was printed by David de Negker (son of Jost de Negker) in Augsburg, based on a 1510 woodcut by Hans Burgkmair the elder Image:Hans Burgkmair quaternionenadler.jpg. It was uploaded by Commons:User:Michail (en:User:Michail)
I am referring to the object at the center of the image. Is it really a pop up page? it looks like it has a similar image to the visible pages. Is it not possible that it is a distortion due to scanning. --Leivick (talk) 21:39, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think the image is scanned nor folded by mistake. The image seems like to be taken by a photographer. You can check the fact as looking at the bottom edge of the book.--Caspian blue (talk) 21:45, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Quaternion Eagle by Jost de Negker.jpg MER-C 08:12, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note - caption was gibberish, now corrected. The father of David de Negker, the alleged artist, was about 25 in 1510. How come there is no source btw? Johnbod (talk) 16:35, 2 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]