The Trout Stream
Medium
Etching in black on cream wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Image/plate: 21.8 × 18 cm (8 5/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Sheet: 25.8 × 20.5 cm (10 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
11926
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...