Fields of San Gimignano
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.2 × 32.6 cm (8 × 12 7/8 in.); Plate: 20.6 × 33.1 cm (8 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.5 × 33.5 cm (8 1/2 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12023
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...