Adalbert Volck
Lincoln as Puppeteer
1860
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Adalbert Volck
Lincoln as Puppeteer
1860
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 305 × 242 mm. (12 × 9 1/2 in.)
Image: 190 × 120 mm. (7 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.68a
Probably the frontispiece for the series, as other impressions have the series title in the plate.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 92, ill. p. [93]. MacBride, Van Dyk, 'The Lincoln Caricatures: Eight Etchings by Adalbert J. Volck,' The Lincoln Herald, v. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1954), p. 25, 34, ill. p. 35. Murrell, William, A History of American Graphic Humor, v. I (1747-1865), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933, p. 204, ill. no. 201. Shaw, Albert, Abraham Lincoln. His Path to the Presidency. A Cartoon History. New York: Review of Reviews Corp., 1930, ill. p. 12. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Lincoln in Caricature, New York: Horizon Press, 1953, p. 140, ill. p. 141.
Signed: 1
