Submarine Dream. Lithographs and Letters. Edited by Brian Webb. With an Introduction by Peyton Skipwith.

Bookseller Notes

Ravilious' textured, highly evocative illustrations, created while he was an official war artist with the Admiralty, following the submarine, HMS Dolphin. The illustrations are punctuated by illuminating, playful extracts from letters to his wife, Tirzah, O'Rourke Dicky of the War Artists Advisory Committee and to his friend and fellow artist, Helen Binyon: 'The electric light has failed as it is Good Friday and I am writing by candle. The fire is poor and the room is like a cave... The submarine pictures are done but not as good as they ought to be. It is a pity. Some aren't bad: perhaps lithography in five colours is too much and the result tends to be a chromo, you shall see them one day.'