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.)
Portfolio/Series
Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63. First issue, 1863.
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.32
College Art Association, New York, 'Salon of American Humorists,' Dec. 1933, no. 70. *The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'The Hand of Man: Railroads in American Prints and Photographs,' Nov. 21, 1978-Jan. 7, 1979, no. 33. *The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Art & Revolution Installation #1,' Sept. 30-October 30, 1988. Blaisdell, Thomas C., Jr., Peter Selz and Seminar, University Art Museum, Berkeley, 'The American Presidency in Political Cartoons: 1776-1976,' Jan. 13-Feb. 22, 1976, p. 90, ill. p. 91; circulated elsewhere.
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.
Artist
Adalbert Volck
American, born Germany, 1828-1912
American, born Germany, 1828-1912
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Adalbert Volck
American, born Germany, 1828-1912
American, born Germany, 1828-1912
Meet Adalbert Volck
