Stanley William Hayter
Tropic of Cancer
About this artwork
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title:Tropic of Cancer
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accession number:GMA 771
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materials:Engraving, scorper and soft-ground etching on paper (28/50)
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date created:Dated 1949
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measurements:55.40 x 69.50 cm (paper 68.90 x 84.40 cm)
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credit line:Presented by Mr William Wilson 1961
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter
Born in London, Stanley William Hayter was a major figure in twentieth-century printmaking. In 1926 he abandoned a promising career in the oil industry to travel to Paris and enrol at the Académie Julian art school. In Paris, Hayter met the Polish artist Joseph Hecht (1891-1951) who taught him burin…
