Adalbert Volck
Butler’s Victims of Fort St. Philip
1860
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Adalbert Volck
Butler’s Victims of Fort St. Philip
1860
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 283 × 352 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 157 × 215 mm. (6 3/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Image: 138 × 197 mm. (5 7/16 × 7 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.53
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 #23 in both series.
Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 507, ill. p. 505. Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 24, ill. p. [25].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TR (pencil): 'Punishment of gentlemen by Butler- / Norfolk Va / 23 Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
