Searching for arms

Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912 Searching for arms

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GLC#
GLC00493.05-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1880-1890
Author/Creator
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Title
Searching for arms
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 etching : b&w Height: 26 cm, Width: 34.8 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Depicts arrogant Northern soldiers rummaging for weapons through the house of a Southern sympathizer. A woman is holding her scared daughter in the right foreground. The two women are in nightgowns and have wrapped themselves in a curtain to cover themselves from the view of the soldiers. The left foreground shows two soldiers looking under a mattress for weapons while another soldier shows the women a small Confederate flag he found in the house, as if to say this was all the proof he needed of their disloyalty. Background shows the man of the house fighting with two soldiers. Size in extent is for the mount. The actual size of the etching is 20.4 x 26.6 cm. Title is in pencil on verso.

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