Submarines: diving controls No.1

The lithographic print depicts two men seated steering the submarine while another man is seated with his arms crossed resting. The work was one of ten prints made from a series of drawings made on location in a submarine control room and is based on drawings of submarine interiors executed during summer 1940 at Portsmouth and HMS Dolphin, Hampshire.

In February 1940 Eric Ravilious joined his colleagues John Nash and Muirhead Bone as an artist appointed to the Royal Navy. It was the first time he was able to paint almost full time and his rate of completion also lead to a more rapid development in technique and range of subject matter.

• Commander of a submarine looking through the periscope
• Submarines: frontispiece ('Submarine dream')