Adalbert Volck and Adalbert Volck
Worship of the North
1862
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 230 × 303 mm. (9 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Image: 178 × 247 mm. (7 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.1
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. 16, ill. p. [17]. Bishop, Alison, 'Civil War Sketches,' Boston Public Library Quarterly, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), p. 32-33. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 497, 504, ill. p. 496. MacBride, Van Dyk, 'The Lincoln Caricatures: Eight Etchings by Dr. Adalbert J. Volck,' v. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1954), p. 25, 27, ill. p. 28-29. Murrell, William, A History of American Graphic Humor, v. I (1747-1865), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1933, p. 201, ill. no. 199. Shaw, Albert, Abraham Lincoln. His Path to the Presidency. A Cartoon History. New York: Review of Reviews Corp., 1930, ill. p. 62-63. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Lincoln in Caricature, New York: Horizon Press, 1953, p. 236, ill. p. 237.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, TL Corner, above image: '1'; in plate, Lower C, below image: 'WORSHIP OF THE NORTH'. VERSO: TL Corner (pencil): '#1'; LR, stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
