Adalbert Volck
Mephistopheles
1860
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Great American Tragedians, Comedians, Clowns and Rope Dancers in their Favorite Characters.
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.64
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.[?]'.
