Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1861-1863

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Adalbert Volck and Adalbert Volck

Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

Artist: Adalbert Volck
Publisher: Adalbert Volck

Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party

1861-1863

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.)

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 1950.181.36

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.