And after a while he started jabbing a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette. I think he was feeling rather puzzled.

© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum…
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
And after a while he started jabbing a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette. I think he was feeling rather puzzled.
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

And after a while he started jabbing a woman dressed as Marie Antoinette. I think he was feeling rather puzzled.

Date1939
Artist (American illustrator, 1899–1978)
Illustration Citation"Uncle Fred in the Springtime," by P. G. Wodehouse, in The Saturday Evening Post, May 20 1939
MediumWatercolor and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 12 5/16 × 16 15/16 in. (31.3 × 43 cm)
sheet: 14 15/16 × 18 5/16 in. (37.9 × 46.5 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1979
Object number1979-66
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis scene of wild goings-on at a costume ball occurs in one of the novels of P. J. Wodehouse, who was famous for his humorous tales of the British aristocracy.

Little is recorded about the life of Yale graduate James W. Williamson beyond his facility in rendering the upper class life for both story illustrations and advertisements.
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