Honestly, Bill, I Really Believed I Was On Home Ground
Paul Cox (born 1957)
Price
£550
Signed
Inscribed 'Dear Bill' and publication details below mount
Medium
Pen ink and watercolour with bodycolour
Dimensions
8 ¼ x 11
inches
Illustrated
Tim Heald (Selected and Introduced), The Best After-Dinner Stories, London: The Folio Society,2003, page 44, 'Dear Bill' by John Wells and Richard Ingrams, 'And Judging by the ovation I got from the comrades and the odd bread roll flying through the air I formed the impression I'd gone down rather well. Some silly bugger wrapped himself up in the tablecloth afterwards, occasioning a certain froideur from the toastmaster.'
Exhibited
The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1870-2010, no 446