Drypoint Number Five: Portrait
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 16.5 × 12.1 cm (6 1/2 × 4 13/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 12.3 cm (6 3/4 × 4 7/8 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
12016
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...