Isabel Bishop

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Isabel Bishop
1902-1988
She received an invitation from Mrs. Forster
1940s
Pen and black ink, gray wash, over pencil, on paper.
13 7/16 x 8 1/4 inches (341 x 210 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Robert E. Blum in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his 10th anniversary as Director.
1979.32:19
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Watermark: none.
Miss Bishop originally prepared this drawing in the early 1940's for a 1945 edition of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" which was never published; the drawings were eventually reproduced for a Special Book-of-the-Month Club edition of Jane Austen's novel, published in New York by E. P. Dutton in 1976.

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