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
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.
