Adalbert Volck
Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army
1859-1999
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Adalbert Volck
Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army
1859-1999
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 282 × 351 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 13/16 in.)
Sheet (chine): 146 × 173 mm. (5 3/4 × 6 13/16 in.)
Image: 125 × 161 mm. (4 15/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.45
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 #11 in both series.
Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 505, ill. p. 501. Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 70, ill. p. [71]. Ketchum, Richard M., ed., The American eritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage, 1960, ill. p. 408-9.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): '#11 Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army'; C (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
