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Adalbert Volck

Free Negroes in the North

1860-1862

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Adalbert Volck

Free Negroes in the North

1860-1862

Physical Qualities Lithographic reproduction of original etching, Sheet: 240 × 306 mm. (9 7/16 × 12 1/16 in.) Image: 141 × 182 mm. (5 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number 1950.181.23
Bishop, Alison, 'Civil War Sketches,' Boston Public Library Quarterly, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), p. 33. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), ill. p. 506. Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 66, ill. p. [67]. Weitenkampf, Frank, American Graphic Art, New York: Macmillan, 1912, 1924, p. 226.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: On stone, TL Corner above image: '26'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '26) (Freedman's quarters in Washington) / Free Negroes in the North-'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.

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Adalbert Volck

1827–1911

American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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