Countless anonymous antiques have been misattributed to him.
A quote had been misattributed to Pauline Clandillon-Baker that was in fact a statement made by Naomi Marek.
Ms. Wilmers recently paid a few hundred dollars for an initialed Crowninshield print, which had been misattributed to the landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.
The collection had been misattributed, but Sidney's spiky italic handwriting was identified by the Cambridge scholar Peter Croft, who went on to become the poet's first editor.
William Baker, of Northern Illinois University, who edits the journal George Eliot George Henry Lewes Studies, told me he believed that the quotation had been misattributed to Eliot by a greeting-card company, and had subsequently been disseminated into popular culture.
This article was amended on 16 June 2015 to reflect a CIA response to the Senate intelligence committee, which had been misattributed as a CIA response to its inspector general.
The "Dixit Dominus" went undiscovered until recently, explains Michael Talbot, perhaps the ultimate Vivaldi authority, in booklet notes, because it had been misattributed by a shady Venetian copyist and merchant (a priest, like Vivaldi, but no matter) in the mid-18th century to the trendier and more advanced Baldassare Galuppi.
Some Muybridges may have been misattributed, according to Tyler Green, and Michelangelo may have hidden a brain in the Sistine Chapel, according to some scholars.
So it's entirely possible that a number of accidental shootings of adults by young children have been misattributed, skewing our sense of the risk of such deaths or injuries.
Common environment may partly explain a familial effect that may have been misattributed to genetics.
