Portal of the Ducal Palace, Venice
Medium
Etching in black on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 20.1 × 10.5 cm (7 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Sheet: 23.3 × 13 cm (9 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
110646
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...