Inscribed in pen and ink, lower center: "Fives played at the Tennis Court Leicester Fields, " (first three words crossed out : "The Game of"); label on the back of the frame giving the artist name, title, medium, dimensions and states "John Basket (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York | Dec. 4) 1975 | The Property of the estate of the late Mrs. Chas. | E. Dunlap (sold by order of the executors), Sotheby | Parke Bernet, N.Y., 12/4/75 (342 with other five)"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2014.5.50
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
sporting art | genre subject | tennis | courts, tennis USE tennis+courts (built works) | games | fives | leisure
Associated Places:
Europe | United Kingdom | England | Leicestershire | Leicester
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
Publications:
Sarah Murden, Anyone for 18th Century Tennis?, , All Things Georgian, February 20, 2018, https://georgianera.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/anyone-for-18th-century-tennis/