Val d'Ema
Medium
Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.6 × 30.8 cm (5 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.); Plate: 14.1 × 31.2 cm (5 9/16 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 14.7 × 31.7 cm (5 13/16 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
46709
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...