Watercolour with gouache and Indian ink on board, 38 by 49.5 cm (15 by 19 ½ ins)

In the early 1920s, following his move to London, Wragg established a practice as a busy magazine illustrator. His was a regular contributor to such titles as Nash’s Magazine, Sunday Magazine and women’s magazines  including Woman’s Journal and Woman’s Pictorial – his decorative, almost Aubrey Beardsley-like late Art Nouveau style greatly appealing to his readers. By the early 1930s he had become one of the country’s leading Political illustrators, his work his work The Psalms of Modern Life (published in 1933) running to ten reprints within the first three years of its publication and being sold across the world.