Lot 554: Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (1907-1978)

Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (1907-1978)
'Time, gentleman, please!'
signed 'NICOZAS/BENTLEY' (lower left) and inscribed as title (lower centre)
pen and black ink and blue crayon
7½ x 5 3/8 in. (19 x 13.6 cm.); and a cartoon of 'The racket which wouldn't play the game' by Mervyn Wilson (2)

Bentley's cartoon was published 27 June 1959. In that year a strike prevented the daily order of play and results of the matches being printed in the programme, hence the allusion to the players arriving late in this image.