Stanley William Hayter
Death by Water
1947
Scroll
Stanley William Hayter
Death by Water
1947
Physical Qualities
Engraving and scorper; printed in black (intaglio), Sheet: 460 x 660 mm. (18 1/8 x 26 in.)
Plate: 352 x 589 mm. (13 7/8 x 23 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
1948.73
inspired by 1948 poem by T.S. Elliott "The Waste Land"
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1948; the artist, New York
Malcolm Daniel, BMA traveling exhibition, "Innovations in Intaglio: S.W. Hayter and The Atelier 17," 1980-81, circulated to Arundel Center, Annapolis; Caroline County Public Library, Denton; Community College of Baltimore; Landon School, Bethesda; The Museum in the Mall, Columbia; The Park School, Brooklandville; Saint John's College, Annapolis; Washington College, Chestertown; Western Maryland College, Westminster.
Inscribed: across bottom in graphite: "4/5 "Death by Water" SWHayter48"
