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, 1714Drie kinderen spelen badminton of pluimbal, Johannes Alexander Rudolf Best, 1807 – 1855190919091929The English Air cover artWoman’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 SymeTennis 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 June19381893, Willem Wenckebach c 1893Art – Goût – Beauté, Feuillets de l’ élégance féminine, Mai 1931, No. 129, 11e Année, p. 24, anonymous, 1931Vogue Magazine Cover – art by George Wolfe Plank – 1921Très Parisien, 1923, No 8 18.- PALLANZA. – Pour les derniers jours…, anonymous, 1923Telephone Review Magazine June 1937Blücher en Wellington spelen badminton met Napoleon, 1815, Johann Michael Voltz, 1815Journal des Demoiselles, septembre 1868, 36e année, No. 9, Paul Lacourière, after Emile Préval, 1868Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1885, No. 2224e, No. 39 Costumes d’Enfants (…), anonymous, 1885The Young Ladies’ Journal, 1 May 1868, No. 49, Anaïs Colin-Toudouze, 1868Journal des Demoiselles, 1 juillet 1903, No. 5307 Toilette de Mmes Forcillon Soeurs (…), anonymous, after Monogrammist BC, 1903Le Moniteur de la Mode, 1895, Nr. 3128e, No. 17 Garnitures et Passementeries (…), Guido Gonin, 1895 tennisRevue de la Mode, Gazette de la Famille, dimanche 26 juin 1887, 16e Année, No. 808 Etoffes de la M.on Le Houssel, P. Deferneville, 1887Ideal Book For Girls, 1945Ladies Home Journal Original Cover, June 1907 By Henry HuttThe 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.
Cover art of Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie, by Tom Adams
From ‘Furniture Age’ February 1948 tennisHorace Henry Cauty – The Tennis MatchBernie Fuchs tennis in Sports IllustratedCountry Home Magazine June 1933 Young boy badly stringing a tennis racketZittende vrouw met een tennisracket, Edgar Chahine, 1899Slaghout en pluimbal, Kikugawa Eishin, 1810 – 1819Slaghout en pluimbal, Kikugawa Eishin, 1810 – 1819Joseph Christian LeyendeckerLouis WainCat’s Tea Party Louis Wain (1860-1939) tennisAdolph K. Kronengold tennisJoseph Christian LeyendeckerMary Petty (1899-1976)Edward ArdizzoneLorenzo Mattotti New Yorker CoverJoseph Christian Leyendecker Girls with Golf Clubs and Tennis Racquet, ca. 1920St Nicholas Magazine for boys and girls 1923 MayThe Digest – Literary Digest – Magazine – September 4th – 1937
