Adalbert Volck
Albert Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Albert Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 283 × 353 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 141 × 222 mm. (5 9/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Image: 125 × 198 mm. (4 15/16 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.51
The series this print came from is either 'Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63' pub. 1864; or 'Confederate War Etchings' pub. in the 1880's by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia. It is #20 in both series.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 50, ill. p. [51].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: LR (pencil): '29'; BR Corner (paper label printed in black ink): '335'. VERSO: TC (pencil): '#20 Albert S. Johnston Crossing the Desert to / Join the Southern Army'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
