The Towers
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.1 × 10.5 cm (9 15/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 25.4 × 10.7 cm (10 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet: 25.8 × 10.9 cm (10 3/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46693
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...