Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman make-do game detailed in the last photo

detailed in the last photo

with wonderfully inquisitive looking face

quite resolved

smallish tear coming in from the lower left edge

and I've included a photo of some cigarette cards incorporating his images--but I'll take this watercolor of a Lynx done after him any day

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman make-do game detailed in the last photoThis early 20th century ink drawing of a woman in her tennis playing outfit looking poised for a match just makes me happy, making me think of tennis, and sport more generally, as (in some ways at least) a realm of freedom and liberation. And, indeed, over the course of the past century plus, tennis has provided a field for that (literally) perhaps more than any other sport. And so I, who likes to map meaning onto everything, see, in this serene but