Charles Volkmar - A Family of Quacks

A Family of Quacks

Charles Volkmar's "A Family of Quacks" is an original etching with plate tone printed upon fine hand made, laid paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1883. It is signed by Volkmar in the lower right corner of the plate and bearing Ritchie's printer's address along the lower margin. "A Family of Quacks" is a fine, original example of the nineteenth century etched art created by the American artist, Charles Volkmar.

"His (Charles Volkmar's) studies of ducks, both wild and tame, in full flight like the feathered bullets they are, or placidly paddling and floating in the domestic pond, have been so numerous, so varied and so truthful that to many he is known chiefly as a painter of these fowl, in all his three arts." *

Original Etching with Plate Tone by the 19th century American artist, Charles Volkmar.

A Family of Quacks

Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Exhibition 1883.

1883 Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date
01.-		A Family of Quacks by Charles Volkmar	Charles Volkmar (Baltimore, 1841 - Metuchen, New Jersey, 1914)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	c. 1883
02.-		A Southern California Glen by Henry Chapman Ford	Henry C. Ford 'Henry Chapman Ford' (Livonia, New York, 1828 - Santa Barbara, California, 1894)	Original Etching	c. 1882	Sold
03.-		A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky Proclaim it a Hunting Morning by Thomas Moran	Thomas Moran (Bolton, England, 1837 - Santa Barbara, CA, 1926)	Original Etching	c. 1882
04.-		A Summer Afternoon by Henry Webster Rice	Henry Webster Rice 'Henry W. Rice' (Pownal, Maine, 1853 - Watertown, Massachusetts, 1934)	Original Etching	c. 1883
05.-		Artillery Sergeant by William Henry Shelton	William Henry Shelton (Allen's Hill, NY., 1840 - Morristown, NY., 1932)	Original Etching	c. 1883
06.-		Building an Elevator by James Craig Nicol	James Craig Nicoll (New York City, 1847 - Norwalk, Connecticut, 1918)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	1881
07.-		Drifting by Stephen Parrish	Stephen Parrish (Philadelphia, 1846 - Cornish, N. H., 1938)	Original Etching	c. 1883
08.-		Feeding Sheep by John Austin Sands Monks	John Austin Sands Monks (Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY, 1850 - Chicago, 1917)	Original Etching	1883
09.-		From Under the Trees by George W. H. Ritchie (George Wistar Hodge Ritchie)	George Wistar Hodge Ritchie 'George W. H. Ritchie' (New York City, Active 1870 - 1900)	Original Etching	1883
10.-		Head of an Old Man by Joseph Lauber	Joseph Lauber (Meschede, Westphalia, Germany, 1855 - New York City, 1948)	Original Etching	1881
11.-		Naponock (Naponoch) Scenery, Ulster County, New York by William Hart	William M. Hart 'William Hart' (Paisley, Scotland, 1823 - Mount Vernon, New York, 1894)	Original Etching	c. 1883
12.-		Near Annasquam (Annisquam) by Albion Harris Bicknell	Albion Harris Bicknell 'A. H. Bicknell' (Turner, Maine, 1837 - Malden, Massachusetts, 1915)	Original Etching	c. 1883
13.-		Now Come Still Evening On by Henry Farrer	Henry Farrer (London, England, 1843 - Brooklyn, New York, 1903)	Original Etching	1882 - 1883
14.-		Partegat Pond by Benjamin Lander	Benjamin Lander (New York City, 1844 - ?)	Original Etching	1882 - 1883	Sold
15.-		Street at Honfleur, France by Charles Platt	Charles Adams Platt 'Charles Platt' (New York City, 1861 - 1933)	Original Etching	1882
16.-		The Mill by Robert Crannell Minor	Robert Crannell Minor 'Robert C. Minor' (New York City, 1839 - Waterford, Connecticut, 1904)	Original Etching & Drypoint	c. 1883	Sold
17.-		View in the Campagna ('A Group of Ilex Trees near Rome') by George Loring Brown	George Loring Brown (Boston, 1814 - Malden, Massachusetts, 1889)	Original Etching	1854 (Third & Final State: 1883)	Sold

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Title:	A Family of Quacks
Artist:	Volkmar, Charles (Baltimore, 1841 - Metuchen, New Jersey, 1914)
Date:	c. 1883
Medium:	Original Etching with Plate Tone
Printer:	George Wistar Hodge Ritchie
Note:	Charles Volkmar: A nineteenth century American painter, etcher and ceramic artist, Charles Volkmar first studied art techniques at the Maryland Institute. He created his first etchings there, before turning twenty years of age. In 1861 Volkmar was accused of being a Confederate sympathizer and thus travelled to Paris. There, he first studied sculpting techniques under the famous French master, Antoine-Louis Bayre. As well, Volkmar later studied painting under the Barbizon artist, Henri Harpignies. In total, Charles Volkmar lived in Paris for a total of fifteen years and exhibited his etchings and paintings at the prestigious Paris Salon, from 1875 to 1880.
	During this period Charles Volkmar became interested in pottery, particularly in relation to the underglaze slip painting process. When he returned to the United States, Charles Volkmar set up kilns at Greenpoint, Long Island (1879), the Bronx (1882), Menlo Park, New Jersey (1888) and finally, Metuchen, New Jersey (1902). Volkmar's ceramics business flourished until ill health forced him to retire in 1911.
	During his career, Charles Volkmar exhibited his etchings, paintings and pottery at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Boston Art Club, the American Watercolor Society and at the Brooklyn Art Association. Today his fine art is included in such noteworthy collections as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
	In 1883 the Art Department of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, Boston, held a an important exhibition of contemporary American art. Concentrating largely upon American drawings and etchings the exhibition catalogue listed 731 works of original art. Charles Volkmar's etching, "A Family of Quacks", was first exhibited at this exposition and bears the catalogue number, 661. Most of the etchings featured at this exhibition are today quite scarce.
	* (Opening Quotation) William Walton, "Charles Volkmar, Potter," The International Studio, London, January, 1909, vol. XXXVI, #143.
Size:	6 X 8 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon fine hand made, laid paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1883. Signed by Volkmar in the lower right corner of the plate and bearing Ritchie's printer's address along the lower margin. A strongly printed, impression with full tonal values and in excellent condition throughout. "A Family of Quacks" represents a brilliant, original example of the nineteenth century American art of Charles Volkmar.
Subject:	Charles Volkmar, "A Family of Quacks", original etching, studies of ducks, American Graphic Art, nineteenth century American painter, etcher and ceramic artist, pottery, underglaze slip painting process, Antoine-Louis Bayre, Metuchen, New Jersey.
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