Different Aspects of Submarines

Artist Eric Ravilious (London, England, 1903 - 1942)

Date1940 - 1941

Mediumlithograph on paper

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsImage Size: Height: 28 cm, Width: 32 cm

AcquisitionPurchased in 1984 with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

CopyrightOut of copyright - CC0

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG009647

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About MeRavilious was commissioned as a War Artist in 1939 and assigned to the Admiralty with whom he was appointed Captain Royal Marines.

Posted to 'HMS Dolphin', Gosport, in 1940 he began to draw submarine interiors, from which he produced a set of ten lithographs. This work however focuses on various exterior views of submarines: images of a hull with pennant number 54 and a large propeller dominate the foreground.

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War artist Eric Ravilious drew the submarines and submariners at Gosport. Here we can see underwater the hidden parts of submarines, the bulbous hull, enormous propellers and cramped internal spaces.