The Wooster Papers

Cast

the oil painting✦︎

Also the picture, the portrait, a picture, a portrait of one of Uncle Tom’s ancestors, a fairish-sized oil painting, oil paintings, a picture of a girl chirruping to a pigeon

An oil painting of a girl and a dove in Bertie's room, which Gussie brings down on Spode's head.

In each book 2 books
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    An oil painting of a girl and a dove in Bertie's room, which Gussie brings down on Spode's head.
  • In Aunts Aren't Gentlemen
    The picture Gussie once brought down on Spode's head, remembered here as a portrait of one of Uncle Tom's ancestors at Aunt Dahlia's place.

Connections

dealings

Scenes it is in

  1. Bertie forgets the magic name when facing Spode, Gussie crowns Spode with a painting and flees, a brawl brings in Aunt Dahlia, and the remembered 'Eulalie' reduces Spode to grovelling, after which Aunt Dahlia scoffs at Bertie's plan to search Stiffy's room.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as a fairish-sized oil painting

Talked about, but not there

  1. Pop Cook, told by the recovered Major Plank that Bertie is the crook Alpine Joe, finds Vanessa's inscribed book and goes for Bertie with his hunting crop, until he trips over the grandfather clock and Bertie crowns him with a painting and wraps him in the tablecloth before leaving for the Goose and Grasshopper.Chapter 15, the sitting-room, as the portrait