The Market, Venice
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 26.6 × 37.8 cm (10 1/2 × 14 15/16 in.); Plate: 27.1 × 38.2 cm (10 11/16 × 15 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.9 × 42.2 cm (11 13/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
51400
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...