Bishop, Isabel. FRIENDS. T29, sixth state of ten. Etching 1942. 7 5/8 x 4 inches; 198 x 102 mm. Signed in pencil, and annotated "vi" at the bottom left edge of the sheet. The sixth state, with the addition of the two parallel lines at right, above and below the skirt hem, but before the filling in of the shoes, the building at right, the urn and vertical lines at right, and the decorative loops on the urn. Teller says "The Plate for this subject is steel faced and canceled, indicating that it may have been editioned. However, only unnumbered proofs printed by the artist are known to the author." One of only a few of Bishop's prints which were not included in a lifetime or posthumous edition. Rare.
