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.)
Credit Line
Gift of Philip B. Perlman
Object Number
1950.181.32
In museum mat.
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.
