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Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party
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Adalbert Volck and Adalbert Volck

Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1860

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Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1860

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 231 × 303 mm. (9 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.) Image: 158 × 220 mm. (6 1/4 × 8 11/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63: First issue, 1863.
Credit Line Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number 1950.181.6
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: TL (pencil): '12. Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party.'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.

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Adalbert Volck

American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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Adalbert Volck

American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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