Adalbert Volck
Smuggling Medicines into the South
1859-1999
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Adalbert Volck
Smuggling Medicines into the South
1859-1999
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 285 × 351 mm. (11 1/4 × 13 13/16 in.)
Sheet (chine): 148 × 209 mm. (5 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Image: 133 × 189 mm. (5 1/4 × 7 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.49
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 #18 in both series.
Bishop, Alison, 'Civil War Sketches,' Boston Public Library Quarterly, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), p. 32. Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 34, ill. p. [35]. The Baltimore Sun, March 31, 1912, ill. part 4, p. 2. Ketchum, Richard M., ed., The American eritage Picture History of the Civil War, New York: American Heritage, 1960, ill. p. 408.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): 'Contraband trade from Md. [all crossed out] / 18 Smuggling Medicines into the South'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
