Mirror
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engraving and softground etching in black
Dimensions
plate: 19 × 11.8 cm (7 1/2 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1944.14.19
Art Historical Context
Stanley William Hayter's *Mirror* (1941) is a striking intaglio print created through engraving and softground etching in black ink, measuring a intimate 19 × 11.8 cm. As a master printmaker and founder of the innovative Atelier 17 workshop in Paris (later relocated to New York amid War II), Hayter 20th-century printmaking blending Surrealist experimentation with technical precision. This small-scale work, now in the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald Collection, exemplifies his commitment to pushing the boundaries of black-and-white reproduction. Engraving involves incising fine lines direc...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...