Wimbledon Common

This watercolour is one of Rackham’s earliest known works. It is dated 1889 and was executed whilst he was still at the Westminster Fire Office and living in Wandsworth - well before finding fame as an illustrator and having only started evening studies at Lambeth School of Art in 1884. A similar early work, ‘Winter - In the woods’ also dated 1889, was sold at Sotheby’s in December, 2013 for £3,000. Another view of view of Wimbledon dated 1892 was sold at Sotheby’s in July 1993.