Fields of San Gimignano
Medium
Etching and drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20 × 32.5 cm (7 7/8 × 12 13/16 in.); Plate: 20.5 × 32.9 cm (8 1/8 × 13 in.); Sheet: 21.1 × 33.2 cm (8 5/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46747
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...