STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER, 1948

Death by Water, 1901-1988
Engraving and scorper with plate tone, on Lauriat paper, with full margins (the plate printed at a slight diagonal), I. 14 x 23 1/4 in. (35.6 x 59.1 cm); S. 20 x 25 7/8 in. (50.8 x 65.7 cm). signed, titled and numbered 21/50 in pencil (there were also 5 artist's proofs and a second edition of 25 in Roman numerals printed in 1976), a stray printing ink and soiling in the margins (particularly at the sheet edges), paper loss at the lower right corner, a few tears, repaired tears and paper losses at the sheet edges, hinge remains on the reverse of the upper corners, otherwise in good condition, framed.

LITERATURE Peter Black and Désirée Moorhead 186