Val d'Ema
Medium
Etching in black on buff wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 30.2 cm (5 3/8 × 11 15/16 in.); Plate: 14 × 30.5 cm (5 9/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 14.3 × 31 cm (5 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12041
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...