Three decades after Ravilious's death, a portfolio of his art was discovered under fellow artist Edward Bawden's bed, where it had been stored for safekeeping. Ravilious had made a series of paintings and lithographs inside submarines, including Commander of a Submarine Looking Through a Periscope, featuring fine crosshatched lines and a graphic depiction of the officer's view above sea level; and The Ward Room, depicting a mess cabin, both made in 1941. Some of these had been rejected by the War Office.
