Isabel Bishop

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Isabel Bishop
1902-1988
Thirty-one preparatory drawings for Special Book-of-the-Month Club edition of Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice", New York, E. P. Dutton (1976)
1940s
Pen and black ink and wash, over graphite, on paper.
Various sizes ranging between 7 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (186 x 186 mm) and 14 5/8 x 12 inches (372 x 305 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Robert E. Blum in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his 10th anniversary as Director.
1979.32:1-31
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Watermark: none.
Miss Bishop originally prepared the drawings in the early 1940's for a 1945 edition of the work which was never published.

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Midtown Galleries, New York; Mrs. Robert E. Blum, Lakeville, Conn.
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