Forge of the Carmelites
Medium
Etching in black on tan laid paper, laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 23.7 × 18.8 cm (9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.); Primary support: 24.1 × 18.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 28.5 × 22.7 cm (11 1/4 × 8 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11769
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...