Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house and later became a stretcher-bearer

and later became a stretcher-bearer with the 1st Engineer Regiment

The manner of the painting on the barn indicates to me c

The more I look at it

maybe as she appeared ready to go to church

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman stone house and later became a stretcher-bearerThis 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