Tower of St. Germain-des-Prés
Medium
Etching in black on cream chine, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.7 × 11 cm (7 13/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 12.5 cm (8 9/16 × 4 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46470
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...