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Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1860-1862

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Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1860-1862

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet (wove): 223 × 303 mm. (8 3/4 × 11 15/16 in.) Sheet (chine): 171 × 247 mm. (6 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.) Image: 157 × 221 mm. (6 3/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number 1950.181.36
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 60, ill. p. [61]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 505, ill. p. 501. An Album of American Battle Art, 1755-1918, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office and The Library of Congress, 1947, p. 184-85, ill. no. 96 p. 235.

Signed: 1

Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, TL Corner, above image: '12'. VERSO: TC (pencil): '#12 Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.

Artist

Adalbert Volck

1827–1911

American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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Adalbert Volck

1827–1911

American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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