Plate of Sketches
Medium
Etching in black on tan chine, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 12.2 × 10.9 cm (4 13/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Primary support: 12.2 × 11.2 cm (4 13/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 13.7 × 12 cm (5 7/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11841
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...