Cronos

1944

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper
Dimensions: Plate: 15 3/4 × 20 in. (40 × 50.8 cm) Sheet: 20 1/8 × 25 3/8 in. (51.1 × 64.5 cm)
Collection no.: 46.139.4
Attribution: By the artist

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Cronos — Stanley William Hayter. 1944.

Medium: Engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper. Dimensions: Plate: 15 3/4 × 20 in. (40 × 50.8 cm) Sheet: 20 1/8 × 25 3/8 in. (51.1 × 64.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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