A Lion
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 12.6 × 18.8 cm (5 × 7 7/16 in.); Sheet: 13.1 × 18.9 cm (5 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11785
About the Artist
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan (1876–1938) was born on November 9 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, though he is recognized as an American artist after his family relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. There, as a teenager, he immersed himself in the Boston Public Library's collections of old master prints, studying works by Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, and eighteenth-century E...