Adalbert Volck
Smuggling Medicines into the South
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Smuggling Medicines into the South
1859
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
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.
