Drypoint portrait of a seated woman in a wide plumed hat and white collared blouse, hands clasped, looking to the left, on cream paper.

Drypoint Number Two: Portrait

A seated woman in a large plumed hat and high-collared blouse rests her clasped hands in her lap, gazing off to the left. Loose, feathery hatching in dark lines builds the hat, face and sleeves against an open cream ground, with the signature in pencil-like script at lower right.

Artist: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Date: 1909
Medium: Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2151 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1909).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Walter S. Brewster

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