Reproducing 12 characteristic drawings by eric ravilious 19031942 while employed as an admiralty artist from 194042 includes deshyicing aircraft 1942 coastal defences 1940 and hms glorious in the arctic 1940 enthused by the appointment quotafter the quiet life in the observer corpsquot he also relished the subject matter in the summer of 1940 he was working on a series of submarine interiors and wrote of his fascination quotthe scene is extraordinarily good in a gloomy wa