Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman anniversary present to give pride of place

to give pride of place

written directly on the card

and I really really love those trees

which appears to be native rather than a stain

If not enjoyed just as is

Antique Pen and Ink Drawing of Tennis Player Woman anniversary present to give pride of placeThis 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