Adalbert Volck
Lincoln and Butler as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
1862
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 242 × 302 mm. (9 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)
Image: 134 × 160 mm. (5 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
Great American Tragedians, Comedians, Clowns and Rope Dancers in their Favorite Characters.
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.65
Blaisdell, Thomas C. Jr., Peter Selz and Seminar, University Art Museum, Berkeley, 'The American Presidency in Political Cartoons: 1776-1976,' Jan. 13-Feb. 22, 1976, p. 92, ill. p. 93; circulated elsewhere.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 86, ill. p. [87]. Shaw, Albert, Abraham Lincoln. The Year of his Election. A Cartoon History. New York: Review of Reviews Corp., 1930, ill. p. 253. Murrell, William, A History of American Graphic Humor, vol. I (1747-1865), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933, p. 204, ill. no. 202. MacBride, Van Dyk, 'The Lincoln Caricatures: Eight Etchings by Dr. Adalbert J. Volck,' The Lincoln Herald, v. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1954), p. 25, 36, ill. p. 37. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Lincoln in Caricature, New York: Horizon Press, 1953, p. 210, ill. p. 211. Ketchum, Richard M., ed., The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage, 1960, ill. p. 482.
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