Siena
Medium
Etching in black on buff wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 11.5 × 8.2 cm (4 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 13.6 × 9.9 cm (5 3/8 × 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11910
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...