Adalbert Volck and Adalbert Volck
Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
1860-1862
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Lithographic reproduction of original etching, Sheet: 241 × 305 mm. (9 1/2 × 12 in.)
Image: 135 × 181 mm. (5 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.22
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. 88, ill. p. [89]. Bishop, Alison, 'Civil War Sketches,' Boston Public Library Quarterly, v. 4, no. 1 (Jan. 1952), p. 33. Halstead, Murat, 'Historic Illustrations of the Confederacy,' Cosmopolitan, v. 9 (1890), p. 504, ill. p. 498. MacBride, Van Dyk. 'The Lincoln Caricatures: Eight Etchings by Dr. Adalbert J. Volck,' The Lincoln Herald, v. 56, no. 3 (Fall 1954), p. 25, 32, ill. p. 33. Wilson, Rufus Rockwell, Lincoln in Caricature, New York: Horizon Press, 1953, ill.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: On stone, TL Corner above image: '25'. VERSO: TL (pencil): '3) Writing the Emancipation Proclamation-'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo.
