The Bathers
Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
1651, printed 1906
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 11.1 × 13.8 cm (4 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 11.6 × 14 cm (4 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12278
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...