Inscribed with title (under mount)

Brush and Indian ink with collage on artist’s board, 23 by 19 cm (9 by 7 ½ ins)

Collage employing newspaper text was a regular feature in political art of the 1930s. Wragg’s newspaper text references widespread unrest across Continental Europe, his title “The Patient Gentleman of England” implicitly praising the working class English man.