Adalbert Volck
Free Negroes in Hayti
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Free Negroes in Hayti
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 283 × 352 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 159 × 186 mm. (6 1/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
Image: 123 × 146 mm. (4 13/16 × 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.56
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 #27 in both series.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 64, ill. p. [65]. Bishop, Alison, 'Civil War Sketches,' Boston Public Library Quarterly, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), p. 33. Weitenkampf, Frank, American Graphic Art, New York: Macmillan, 1912, 1924, p. 226.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '27 Free Negroes in Hayti'; Lower C (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
