The Grimsel
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 30.7 × 36.4 cm (12 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.); Plate: 31.3 × 37 cm (12 3/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 32.9 × 38.7 cm (13 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11658
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...