Adalbert Volck
Stone Blockade Off Charleston, S.C.
1860
Physical Qualities
Lithographic reproduction of original etching, Sheet: 241 × 305 mm. (9 1/2 × 12 in.)
Image: 102 × 217 mm. (4 × 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.14
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: On stone, TL Corner, above image: '10'; BL on stone: artist's monogram. VERSO: TL (pencil): '10. Sinking of Vessels loaded with Stone in Charleston Harbor- Stone Blockade off Charleston, S.C.'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
