Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house but didn’t have the patience

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

While the weaving is unsigned

but I find her an incredibly tender thing

maybe as she appeared ready to go to church

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

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house but didn’t have the patienceThis 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