Adalbert Volck
Stone Blockade Off Charleston, S.C.
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Stone Blockade Off Charleston, S.C.
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 280 × 351 mm. (11 × 13 13/16 in.)
Sheet (chine): 119 × 223 mm. (4 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Image: 102 × 212 mm. (4 × 8 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.44
The series this print comes from is either 'Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63,' pub. 1864 by Volck; or 'Confederate War Etchings' pub. 1880's by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia. (Numbered 10 in both series.)
Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), ill. p. 502. Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 42, ill. p. [43].
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, BL: artist's monogram. VERSO: TL (pencil): '#10 Sinking of vessels loaded with / stone in Charleston harbor- / Stone Blockade off Charleston, S.C'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
