Woman playing tennis with a racket, color print – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Woman playing tennis with a racket, color print, preserved in this historic print. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Woman playing tennis with a racket, color print
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A woman poses mid-stroke with a wooden racket, a detail that places this print in the years when lawn tennis was still widely seen as a leisure pastime for women of the middle and upper classes. Women's tennis took off in Britain and America during the late 1800s, and the sport's longer skirts, high-necked blouses and cumbersome tennis dresses of the era show how much ladies' games were shaped by dress codes. Color prints like this one were often hand-finished or tinted, so the palette was as much a product of the printmaker's choices as of the subject. Looking closely at her stance and clothing offers a useful window into how sport and fashion intersected for women at the time.
| Original scan | 1,163 × 1,468 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g02922_ |
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