Adalbert Volck
Cave Life in Vicksburg During the Siege
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Cave Life in Vicksburg During the Siege
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 285 × 352 mm. (11 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 138 × 184 mm. (5 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
Image: 116 × 154 mm. (4 9/16 × 6 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.57
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 #30 in the former and #28 in the latter.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 62, ill. p. [63]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 506, ill. p. 507.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '28 Cave Life ['at' crossed out] in Vicksburg during the Siege'; Lower C (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
