Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house Each plate measure 7

Each plate measure 7

but didn’t have the patience to fully figure it out—so this is the right thing for someone handy with such things and a little time on their hands

maybe as she appeared ready to go to church

While the weaving is unsigned

the cheery plumes of her hat

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house Each plate measure 7This 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