The Sleeping Rag Vendor
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.8 × 23.9 cm (7 13/16 × 9 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20.1 × 24 cm (7 15/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11803
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...