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- [2006-05-15T20:36:27Z] The Man in Question (A woodcut of [[Flavius Josephus]] by John C. Winston. ==Licensing== {{PD-old}})
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- (del) (cur) 20:36, 15 May 2006 . . The Man in Question (Talk | contribs) . . 717×1000 (1,155,735 bytes) (A woodcut of Flavius Josephus by John C. Winston. ==Licensing== {{PD-old}})
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A woodcut of [[Flavius Josephus]] by John C. Winston. ==Licensing== {{PD-old}} {{NowCommons|Image:Josephus.jpg}}
Poccil 09:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Towards proper attribution
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What is the source for the claim this is a picture of an engraving?
Who was the artist?
When was it created?
Where does the original art reside?
What is the full reference to the book the picture first appeared in?
William Whiston's wikipedia page, claims his translation was published in 1737. A source for that date is found in a photo at jewishVirtualLibrary reported to be a pic of a 1st edition from library of congress. publish details: London, Printed by W.Bowyer for the author: and are to be sold by John Whiston, Bookseller, at Mr. Boyle's Head: Fleetstreet 1737 (Roman Numeral MDCCXXXVII = 1737) It is unclear if the first edition printing contained the picture, as later editions sometimes do and sometimes don't.
What page/cover was the picture printed on in the book?
Unknown. Probably the title page. There are books for sale today with it on the cover, however it only shows up in the title page for old editions available in Archive.org.
List of Archive.org's 10 books scans:
Picture or some variant of it: (1) 1817 London W. Baynes (2) 1844 Cincinnati E. Morgan (3) 1856 Auburn, Rochester, Alden and Beardsley (4) 1878-79 London Ward, Lock
^ Note: I can't find any artists credits in those but pls take a look.
No Picture: (1) 1817 London W. Baynes (2) 1817 London W. Baynes (diff chapter titles) (3) 1900 Cleveland World Syndicate Pub. Co (version 1) (4) 1900 Cleveland World Syndicate Pub. Co (version 2)
Different Picture: (1) 1821 Boston, S. Walker (2) 1855 New York, Leavitt & Allen — Preceding unsigned comment added by SilentBear (talk • contribs) 20:03, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
