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Smuggling Medicines into the South

Creator:
Adalbert Johann Volck
Location:
Maryland, Baltimore
Origin Date:
1861-1863
Materials:
paper
Measurements:
overall: 9 9/16 in x 12 in
Item ID:
71.2009.081.2084
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, depicting medicines about to be smuggled into the South features a small boat held on shore by one man and being loaded with barrels and crates by two others. Another man is sitting on a branch in a nearby tree presumably as the lookout. A soldier is standing beside a horse removing something carried on its back. The number 18 appears 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