Poem by Jacques-Henri Lévesque from 21 Etchings and Poems
1947 (published 1960)
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etching from a portfolio of 10 etchings; six etching and aquatints; two engraving and etchings; two etching and drypoints; and one etching, aquatint, and drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 28.6 x 19.4 cm (11 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 50.2 x 42.9 cm (19 3/4 x 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Prospero Foundation Fund
Accession Number
1997.6.1.8
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 ...