Adalbert Volck
Buying a Substitute in the North During the War
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Buying a Substitute in the North During the War
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 284 × 352 mm. (11 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 158 × 207 mm. (6 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Image: 135 × 182 mm. (5 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.42
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 #40 in the former and #7 in the latter.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 56, ill. p. [57]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 505, ill. p. 500. Weitenkampf, Frank, American Graphic Art, New York: Macmillan, 1912, 1924, p. 226. Ketchum, Richard M., ed., The American eritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage, 1960, ill. p. 510.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '#7 Buying a Substitute in the North During the War'; Lower C (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
