ERIC RAVILIOUS Pharmaceutical Chemist

Eric William Ravilious (1903 –1942) was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood engraver. He grew up in Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs.

Like miniature theatrical sets, objects and food are artfully arranged in a series of shop windows in High Street, in a set of 24 coloured lithographs by Eric Ravilious. A year before these were published, the artist had begun drawing lithographic plates for illustrations he had produced for a book about British shops by his friend J. M. Richards. Accompanied by short texts, the images in High Street were intended to be instructive and decorative.