Laocoön, 1943

Not on View

Medium

engraving and softground etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 31.1 x 55.2 cm (12 1/4 x 21 3/4 in.)

sheet: 38.4 x 64.1 cm (15 1/8 x 25 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Black and Moorhead 1992, no. 154, iv/iv

Accession Number

1945.5.76

Artists / Makers

Stanley William Hayter (artist) British, 1901 - 1988

Marian Willard Gallery (publisher)

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: 17/30; lower center in graphite: Laocöon; lower right in graphite: SWHayter 43; center right in graphite by unknown hand: 2=27 1/2 x 17 3/8

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; acquired 1945 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1987: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

Bibliography

1992: Black, Peter, and Désirée Moorhead. The Prints of Stanley William Hayter: A Complete Catalogue. Mount Kisco, New York: Moyer Bell Limited, 1992, no. 154, iv/iv.