Lord Ickenham, as usual, remained suave and debonair. "Ah, Lady Constance. I have just been telling the boys in this back room about the Duke's unfortunate accident."

© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum…
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
Lord Ickenham, as usual, remained suave and debonair. "Ah, Lady Constance. I have just been telling the boys in this back room about the Duke's unfortunate accident."
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Lord Ickenham, as usual, remained suave and debonair. "Ah, Lady Constance. I have just been telling the boys in this back room about the Duke's unfortunate accident."

Date1939
Artist (American illustrator, 1899–1978)
Illustration Citation"Uncle Fred in the Springtime," by P. G. Wodehouse, in The Saturday Evening Post, May 6, 1939
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 14 1/8 × 9 13/16 in. (35.9 × 24.9 cm)
sheet: 18 3/4 × 12 in. (47.6 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1979
Object number1979-69
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextJames W. Williamson illustrated both stories and advertisements. This scene occurs in one of the novels of P. J. Wodehouse, who was famous for his humorous tales of the British aristocracy.
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