Chris Beetles Gallery

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'Oh Fred-dee!' she said

Paul Cox (born 1957)

Price

£1,250

Signed

Signed
Inscribed with title, 'FM' and 'p 193' below mount

Medium

Watercolour and ink

Dimensions

15 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches

Illustrated

P G Wodehouse, Full Moon, London: the Folio Society,
2004, page 182

Exhibited

'The Illustrators: The British Art of Illustration 1806-2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, November 2025-January 2026, no 285

First published in 1947, Full Moon was the sixth full-length novel to be set in P G Wodehouse's ficitional location of Blandings Castle.

In the novel, the 9th Earl of Emsworth, Clarence, hosts his younger son Freddie,while two of his nieces, Prudence Garland and Veronica Wedge are romantically entangled with, respectively, his brother Gally's godson Bill Lister and American millionaire Tipton Plimsoll. Lister, purporting to be a notable artist named Landseer, is commissioned to paint the portrait of Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings; and the valuable necklace of Freddie's wife, Aggie, goes missing.

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