PILATE COMMANDED A PARTY OF SOLDIERS 1777 Josephus Flavius ANTIQUE ETCHING

Original 1777 10 1/4 inch x 8 inch Etching titled PILATE COMMANDED A PARTY OF SOLDIERS TO ARM THEMSELVES PRIVATLY WITH CLUBS, UNDER THEIR COATS, IN THE HABIT OF COUNTRY PEOPLE, TELLING THEM WHAT THEY WERE TO DO, WHEN HE GAVE THE WORD; THE SOLDIERS SURROUNDED THE MULTITUDE & BEAT THEM WITH NO MERCY.

From “The Works of Flavius Josephus. I. The Life of Josephus as written by Himself; II. The Antiquities of the Jewish People, with a defence of those Antiquities, in Answer to Apion; III. The History of the Martyrdom of the Maccabees, and the Wars of the Jews with the Neighbouring Nations till the final Destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman Power; IV. Account of Philo's Ambassy from the Jews of Alexandria, to the Emperor Caius Caligula (1777). Published by Fielding and Walker, London, 1777.
Josephus, Flavius (37 - c. 100), was a first-century Romano-Jewish scholar, historian and hagiographer, who was born in Jerusalem (then part of Roman Judea) to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Image size 5 7/8 inch x 3 7/8 inch

The etching is in very good condition with slight age related toning and a short tear in the lower border. Reverse side blank.