Adalbert Volck
Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 284 × 353 mm. (11 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 167 × 219 mm. (6 9/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Image: 154 × 210 mm. (6 1/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.50
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 #19 in both series.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 40, ill. p. [41]. Ketchum, Richard M., ed., The American eritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage, 1960, ill. p. 409.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: BL in plate: 'F.B.M.'; BL Corner in plate: 'A.J.V.'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '#19 Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
