This engraving with soft-ground etching and scorper by Stanley William Hayter (1901 - 1988) was created in 1943. It is signed and dated on the lower right "SWHayter 43".  It is numbered on the lower left "17/30" and titled in the center all in pencil "Personnages menaces d'un flamme".  It is also signed and dated in the plate "Hayter 43" and printed on wove paper.   The image is 10" x 7 7/8".  It is framed in an ebonized wood frame and matted.   Overall it is 18 3/4" x 16 3/8".   Stanley William Hayter was an innovative print maker who founded Atelier 17 and who taught Miro, Picasso, Pollock and many other artists the art of printmaking.