VCU James Branch Cabell Library
Adalbert J. Volck Collection of Etchings
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
M 149
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1 Linear Feet
1861-1979
English
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Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Preferred Citation
Adalbert J. Volck Collection of Etchings, Collection Number M 149, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
Acquisition Information
The collection was purchased by the Department in 1979.
Biographical Information
Adalbert J. Volck was born on April 14, 1828 in Augsburg, Bavaria. He studied in Nürnberg and Munich, but left the due to his involvment in the Revolution of 1848. Volck came to the United States in 1849 and became caught up in the gold rush. By 1851, he had enrolled in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, receiving his D.D.S the following year. Volck was a charter member of the Maryland State Dental Association and a founder of the Association of Dental Surgeons. A southern sympathizer, he was instrumental during the American Civil War in getting medical supplies to the South.
During the war, Volck made a series of caricatures favorable to the South under the pseudonym of V. Blada. The Confederate War Etchings, the best known of this series, are in the Volck Collection. After the war, Volck became interested in others fields of art. Several of his works can be seen here in Richmond, at the Valentine Museum (portrait of Lee) and the Confederate Museum (shield). Volck died in March, 1912 at the age of 84.
Scope and Content
The Volck Collection is comprised of 29 Confederate War Etchings and three folders containing articles about the artist and his work. Also included is an original first edition of "The Grasshopper," a cantata written by a Virginian, Innes Randolph, and illustrated by Volck.
Arrangement
The etchings are arranged according to their index numbers, 1 through 29. The folders in box 3 are arranged alphabetically.
Etching
American Civil War.
Civil War, U. S., 1861-1865
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Index to Confederate War Etchings/repositories/5/archival_objects/512021Etching 1. Worship of the North/repositories/5/archival_objects/512031Etching 2. Passage through Baltimore/repositories/5/archival_objects/512041Etching 3. Writing the Emancipation Proclamation/repositories/5/archival_objects/512051Etching 4. Battle in Baltimore, April 19th, 1861/repositories/5/archival_objects/512061Etching 5. Searching for Arms/repositories/5/archival_objects/512071Etching 6. Enlistment of Sickles' Brigade, N.Y./repositories/5/archival_objects/512081Etching 7. Buying a Substitute in the North during the War/repositories/5/archival_objects/512091Etching 8. Marylanders Crossing the Potomac to Join the Southern Army/repositories/5/archival_objects/512101Etching 9. Election in Baltimore, November, 1862/repositories/5/archival_objects/512111Etching 10. Stone Blockade off Charleston, S.C./repositories/5/archival_objects/512121Etching 11. Making Clothes for the Boys in the Army/repositories/5/archival_objects/512131Etching 12. Slaves Concealing their Master from a Search Party/repositories/5/archival_objects/512141Etching 13. Return of a Raiding Party from Pennsylvania/repositories/5/archival_objects/512151Etching 14. Valiant Men "Dat Fite Mit Siegel"/repositories/5/archival_objects/512161Etching 15. Tracks of the Armies/repositories/5/archival_objects/512171Etching 16. Formation of Guerrilla Bands/repositories/5/archival_objects/512182Etching 17. Jamison's Jayhawkers/repositories/5/archival_objects/512192Etching 18. Smuggling Medicines into the South/repositories/5/archival_objects/512202Etching 19. Offering of Bells to be Cast into Cannon/repositories/5/archival_objects/512212Etching 20. Albert S. Johnston Crossing the Desert to Join the Southern Army/repositories/5/archival_objects/512222Etching 21. Gen'l Stuart's Raid to the White House/repositories/5/archival_objects/512232Etching 22. Gen'l Stuart's Return from Pennsylvania/repositories/5/archival_objects/512242Etching 23. Butler's Victims of Fort St. Philip/repositories/5/archival_objects/512252Etching 24. Prayer in Stonewall Jackson's Camp/repositories/5/archival_objects/512262Etching 25. Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the "City of Brotherly Love"/repositories/5/archival_objects/512272Etching 26. Free Negroes in the North/repositories/5/archival_objects/512282Etching 27. Free Negroes in Hayti/repositories/5/archival_objects/512292Etching 28. Cave Life in Vicksburg during the Siege/repositories/5/archival_objects/512302Etching 29. Vicksburg Canal/repositories/5/archival_objects/512312Volck, Adalbert - Related articles/repositories/5/archival_objects/512321890, 1912-1917, 1931-1970, 1979, undated3Volck, Adalbert - Related correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/512331864, 19793Volck, Adalbert - Related publications/repositories/5/archival_objects/512341878, 1978-19793