Editing Eric Ravilious (section)

==Printmaking and illustration==
[[File:Caravans (Eric Ravilious).jpg|thumb|left|''Caravans'', watercolour, 1936]]
Ravilious engraved more than 400 illustrations and drew over 40 lithographic designs for books and publications during his lifetime.<ref>Edward Bawden, ''Design''. Antique Collector's Club, Woodbridge, England. {{ISBN|1-85149-500-2}}.</ref> His first commission, in 1926, was to illustrate a novel for Jonathan Cape. He went on to produce work both for large companies such as the [[Monotype Imaging|Lanston Monotype Corporation]] and smaller, less commercial publishers, such as the [[Golden Cockerel Press]]<ref name=con17/> (for whom he illustrated an edition of ''[[Twelfth Night]]''),<ref name=con21/> the [[Curwen Press]] and the [[Cresset Press]].<ref name=con17/> His woodcut of two Victorian gentlemen playing cricket has appeared on the front cover of every edition of ''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack]]'' since 1938.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/243912.html |title = 20 things you never knew about Wisden |work=Cricinfo |date = 10 April 2006 |access-date=19 August 2009}}</ref> His style of wood-engraving was greatly influenced by that of [[Thomas Bewick]], whom both he and Bawden admired.<ref name=con17/> Ravilious in turn influenced other wood engravers, such as [[Gwenda Morgan]] who also depicted scenes in the [[South Downs]] and was commissioned by the Golden Cockerel Press.

In the mid-1930s Ravilious took up lithography, making a print of ''Newhaven Harbour'' for the "Contemporary Lithographs" scheme, and a set of full-page lithographs, mostly of shop interiors, for a book called ''High Street'', with text by J. M. Richards.<ref name=con29 >Constable, 1982, p. 29.</ref> Following a trip in a submarine in the war he produced a series of lithographs on ''Submarines'', a set of 12,<ref name="RMG NMM">{{cite web |title=The Whitstable mine (from the 'Submarines' series) |url=https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/243338.html |website=Royal Museums Greenwich |publisher=National Maritime Museum |access-date=11 November 2020 |quote=Last drawing in book, twelve}}</ref> one of which was entitled ''Submarine Dream.''<ref name="RMG">{{cite web |title=The Submarine Series. Submarine Dream |url=https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/112231.html |website=Royal Museums Greenwich |publisher=National Maritime Museum |access-date=11 November 2020}}</ref><ref>''[https://issuu.com/powershift/docs/ravilious_submarine_online Submarine Dream]'', Goldmark Press</ref>