Adalbert Volck
Crossing the Potomac from the Lower Counties of Md.
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Crossing the Potomac from the Lower Counties of Md.
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 283 × 349 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet (chine): 141 × 251 mm. (5 9/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
Image: 120 × 237 mm. (4 3/4 × 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.43
The series this print comes from is either 'Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63,' pub. 1864 by Volck; or 'Confederate War Etchings' pub. 1880's by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia. (Numbered 8 in both series.)
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 32, ill. p. [33].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '#8 Crossing the Potomac from the / lower Counties of Md(?). / Marylanders Crossing the Potomac to Join the Southern Army'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
