Adalbert Volck
Vicksburg Canal
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Vicksburg Canal
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 282 × 352 mm. (11 1/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 174 × 222 mm. (6 7/8 × 8 3/4 in.)
Image: 149 × 198 mm. (5 7/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.58
The series this print came from is either 'Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, '62, '63' pub. 1864; or 'Confederate War Etchings' pub. in the 1880's by Porter and Coates, Philadelphia. It is #29 in both series.
Anderson, George McCullough, The Work of Adalbert Johann Volck, Baltimore: G.M. Anderson, 1970, p. 36, ill. p. [37]. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 506, ill. p. 507.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: VERSO: TL (pencil): 'Picket Duty / 29 Vicksburg Canal'; LL (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
