EditorialMedieval children's games: badminton with racquets and shuttlecock, boy with paper windmill, boy flying a butterfly on a string, and boys playing bob-cherry with an apple. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the...
EditorialItinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5, cleaning brush 6, duster 7, racquet 8, hat with pig bristles 9, ve...
EditorialButterfly collector's tools from the 18th century: aerial net on a cane 1, scissors with racquets 2, small preservative brush 6, and soft brush to remove dust 9. Steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European ...
EditorialSongs of Innocence and of Experience, Plate 37, 'The Fly' (Bentley 40), Print made by William Blake, 17571827, British, 1789 to 1794, Relief etching printed in dark-brown with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cre...
EditorialItinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5, cleaning brush 6, duster 7, racquet 8, hat with pig bristles 9, ve...
EditorialRacquets belonging to Roger Federer at at Priority One, which works exclusively for a small group of elite men’s players, in Zephyrhills, Fla., May 14, 2020. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times)
EditorialGlass Negative - Crowd with Tennis Racquets, circa 1920s, A black and white, half plate negative featuring a group of men, women and children along a fence line, at the edge of grassed area. Several women are holding tennis racquets, so this is likely ...
EditorialButterfly collector's tools from the 18th century: aerial net on a cane 1, scissors with racquets 2, small preservative brush 6, and soft brush to remove dust 9. Steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers from Hippolyte Lucas' Natural History of European ...
EditorialMedieval children's game of badminton with racquets and shuttlecock, 13th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.
EditorialMedieval children's games: badminton with racquets and shuttlecock, boy with paper windmill, boy flying a butterfly on a string, and boys playing bob-cherry with an apple. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the...
EditorialFancy dress costume of the game of badminton, with dress of racquets, shuttlecocks and feathers. Handcoloured lithograph after a design by Leon Sault from "L'Art du Travestissement" (The Art of Fancy Dress), Paris, c.1880. Sault was a theatre and opera...
EditorialItinerant seller of brushes and racquets, un brossetier, 18th century. He carries a brush with bone handle 1, Dutch clothes brush 2, ordinary clothes brush 3, hat brush 4, paintbrush 5, cleaning brush 6, duster 7, racquet 8, hat with pig bristles 9, ve...