Tennis And Badminton In Art | SLAP HAPPY LARRY

Humans worked out how much fun it is whack a thing with a bat like thing many, many years ago. Scenes of the joy of racquet sports such as tennis and badminton has been preserved in art.

Een leraar speelt badminton met zijn leerling, Bernard Picart, after Gerard de Lairesse, 1714

Drie kinderen spelen badminton of pluimbal, Johannes Alexander Rudolf Best, 1807 – 1855

1909

1929

The English Air cover art

Woman’s Home Companion August 1912 cover art

by Lucille Patterson Marsh

Vogue Magazine July 15 1927 cover art by Meserole

‘Tea and Tennis.’ (1920) Eveline Syme

Tennis in Mornington Crescent Gardens (1909) by Spencer Gore (English, 1878-1914) The Carreras Cigarette Factory was built on this site in 1926.

Better Homes & Gardens magazine June1938

1893, Willem Wenckebach c 1893

Art – Goût – Beauté, Feuillets de l’ élégance féminine, Mai 1931, No. 129, 11e Année, p. 24, anonymous, 1931

Vogue Magazine Cover – art by George Wolfe Plank – 1921

Très Parisien, 1923, No 8 18.- PALLANZA. – Pour les derniers jours…, anonymous, 1923

Telephone Review Magazine June 1937

Lucky Strike cigarette advertisement from the May 16, 1949 issue of Life magazine

1930 Don’t Overindulge, Smoke a Lucky. Fat-shaming as well as flat-out lying. Nice one, Don Draper.

Blücher en Wellington spelen badminton met Napoleon, 1815, Johann Michael Voltz, 1815

Journal des Demoiselles, septembre 1868, 36e année, No. 9, Paul Lacourière, after Emile Préval, 1868

Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1885, No. 2224e, No. 39 Costumes d’Enfants (…), anonymous, 1885

The Young Ladies’ Journal, 1 May 1868, No. 49, Anaïs Colin-Toudouze, 1868

Journal des Demoiselles, 1 juillet 1903, No. 5307 Toilette de Mmes Forcillon Soeurs (…), anonymous, after Monogrammist BC, 1903

Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1895, Nr. 3128e, No. 17 Garnitures et Passementeries (…), Guido Gonin, 1895 tennis

Revue de la Mode, Gazette de la Famille, dimanche 26 juin 1887, 16e Année, No. 808 Etoffes de la M.on Le Houssel, P. Deferneville, 1887

Ideal Book For Girls, 1945

Ladies Home Journal Original Cover, June 1907 By Henry Hutt

The Badminton Game David Inshaw, oil on canvas, 1972. The smooth shapes of this shrubbery are almost creepy. They put me in mind of a picture book by Chris Van Allsburg: The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.