Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house The manner of the painting

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with a wonderful looseness and sense of whimsy to it--indeed

but I find her an incredibly tender thing

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the cheery plumes of her hat

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house The manner of the paintingThis 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