Adalbert Volck
Mephistopheles
1860-1862
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Adalbert Volck
Mephistopheles
1860-1862
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 304 × 239 mm. (11 15/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Image: 191 × 115 mm. (7 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.64
Possibly caricature of Tim Lane as Mephistopheles. Thin, frowning man with sword and cape standing on cross on floor. VERSO: Faint impression of reversed image, but not showing through from recto.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 112, ill. p. [113].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, BL Corner: 'R AV.[?]'.
