Sketch from the Walls of San Gimignano
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 11.9 × 16 cm (4 11/16 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 12.1 × 16.1 cm (4 13/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12029
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...