The Dark Canal, Venice
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 9.4 × 11.7 cm (3 3/4 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 10.2 × 12.2 cm (4 1/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11979
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...