Adalbert Volck
Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the ‘City of Brotherly Love’
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 284 × 350 mm. (11 3/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet (chine): 155 × 204 mm. (6 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
Image: 136 × 179 mm. (5 3/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.54
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 #45 in the former and #25 in the latter.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 68, ill. p. [69]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 507, ill. p. 506. The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1912, ill. Part 4 p. 2.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '25 Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the 'City of Brotherly Love'.'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
