1. Creator/Author:
  2. Adalbert Johann Volck (35)

Counterfeit Confederate Notes Publicly Offered for Sale in the "City of Brotherly Love"

Creator:
Adalbert Johann Volck
Location:
Unknown place made
Origin Date:
1861-1863
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 9 1/2 in x 12 in
Item ID:
71.2009.081.2088
Holding Institution:
Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum
Available for Viewing:
No
Category:
Fine Art

Description

This etching is a political cartoon by Adalbert Volck, a Southern sympathizer living in Baltimore, Maryland, during the United States Civil War. This cartoon, one of the Confederate War Etchings series, depicts a disreputable man, cigarette in mouth, with Confederate notes in one hand and motioning toward a sign that reads "Counterfeit Confederate Treasury Notes for Sale. Soldiers under orders to the South supplied with lots to suit at reasonable rates." Two men standing beside him appear to be examining a note. An effeminate-looking officer, replete with puffy bloomers and a tiny waist using his saber as a walking stick, stands in the door way to the office. Just around the corner from the Broker's office is the Bible House which advertises "Tracts for Soldiers." Volck is commenting on what he sees as the hypocrisy of the North's economic, social, and cultural establishment. The number 25 appears just above the top left corner of the image. Original etching one of thirty published in Volck's "Confederate War Etchings." Part of the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, courtesy of the Indiana State Museum