Adalbert Volck
Free Negroes in the North
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Free Negroes in the North
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 283 × 352 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 173 × 223 mm. (6 13/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Image: 140 × 181 mm. (5 1/2 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.55
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 #26 in both.
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: VERSO: TL (pencil): '(Freedmen's quarters in / Washington-) / 26 Free Negroes in the North'; Left C (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
