The Lauterbrunnen
Medium
Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 28 × 36.3 cm (11 1/16 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 28.7 × 36.9 cm (11 5/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11655
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...