Cinq Personnages (Five Characters) Artist: Stanley William Hayter (British, 1901–1988)

1946

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

This was the first large-scale print that Stanley William Hayter made in which he combined intaglio, relief, and planographic printing methods. After engraving grooves in the plate, filling them with black ink, and wiping the surface of the plate clean, he used silkscreens to apply three different colored inks to sections of the surface of the plate. This allowed him to print the image in one pull rather than having to run the sheet of paper through the press for each color.

Medium

Color engraving and soft-ground etching with embossing

Dimensions

platemark: 14 15/16 × 24 in. (37.9 × 60.96 cm)
sheet: 20 1/16 × 26 3/16 in. (51 × 66.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of the Associates in Fine Arts

Accession Number

1946.133

Geography

Made in United Kingdom

Culture

British

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Stephen F. Eisenman et al., William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, exh. cat. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2017), 152, no. 102, ill
Object copyright
Not Assigned
Additional information

Edition

1/50

Inscriptions

inscribed in graphite, LL: "1/50", LC: "Cinq Personnages"

Signed

LR: "SWHayter 1946"

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