Adalbert Volck and Adalbert Volck
The Passage Through Baltimore
1860
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 298 × 228 mm. (11 3/4 × 9 in.)
Sheet (chine): 224 × 125 mm. (8 13/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Image: 192 × 116 mm. (7 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.32
In museum mat.
Abbott, Magazine of History, Extra No. 60, 1917, ill. (cited in MacBride). Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 84, ill. p. [85]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 504, ill. p. 497. MacBride, Van Dyk, 'The Lincoln Caricatures: Eight Etchings by Dr. Adalbert J. Volck,' v. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1954), p. 25, 30, ill. p. 31. Murrell, William, A History of American Graphic Humor, v. I (1747-1865), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933, p. 201, ill. no. 200. Shaw, Albert, Abraham Lincoln. The Year of his Election. A Cartoon History. New York: Review of Reviews Corp., 1930, ill. p. 253. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Lincoln in Caricature, New York: Horizon Press, 1953, p. 108, ill. p. 109.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, TL Corner, above image: '2'. VERSO: TC (pencil): '#2 Lincoln's passage thro' Baltimore as President Wash.[?] / Passage through Balt.'; UC (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
