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
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.
