Adalbert Volck
Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
1859
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Adalbert Volck
Writing the Emancipation Proclamation
1859
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (wove): 284 × 352 mm. (11 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 151 × 196 mm. (5 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Image: 134 × 177 mm. (5 1/4 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.41
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 #25 in the former and #3 in the latter.
College Art Association, New York, 'Salon of American Humorists,' Dec. 1933, p. 36 no. 71, ill. p. 35. Schneider, Rona, The Grolier Club, New York, 'American Painter Etchings 1853-1908,' Feb. 21-Apr. 1, 1989, no. 2 ill. p. 6.
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: VERSO: TL (pencil): '#3 Writing the Emancipation Proclamation'; LR (stamped in blue ink): 'PBP' logo .
