The Canal of the Little Saint, Venice
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.2 × 28.8 cm (8 × 11 3/8 in.); Plate: 20.7 × 29.2 cm (8 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 21 × 29.4 cm (8 5/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11997
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...