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[Lili Alvarez].
[Lili Alvarez].
[Helen Wills]
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof. 170 x 135mm (6¾ x 5¼"), with very large margins. Slight creasing.
A portrait of Lili Alvarez 1905-1998) playing tennis. A pioneer in Spanish tennis, she reached the Wimbledon finals three times and was twice defeated by Helen Wills, who described her play as 'unusually daring'. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54845]   £240.00   (£288.00 incl.VAT)
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[Battledore and Shuttlecock] Amor, ut pila, vices exigit. [&] [Owling.]
[Battledore and Shuttlecock] Amor, ut pila, vices exigit. [&] [Owling.]
[Owling] A. V. Venne inv.e. A. Matham. fe.
[Amsterdam c.1632.]
Two etchings, back to back. Sheet 130 x 135mm (5 x 5¼"). Trimmed into print.
On one side is a scene of a man and woman playing 'battledore and shuttlecock', a fore-runner of badminton in which the object is to keep the shuttecock aloft as long as possible. On the reverse is a scene of two men hunting with owls, one on horseback, the other walking, carrying a frame on which nine owls are perched. From an edition of Jacob Cats' ''Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd'', first published 1632.
[Ref: 53704]   £75.00   view all images for this item
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[Ball Game]
[Ball Game]
91-100 [illegible signature]
[n.d., c.1930.]
Etching, printed in colours, signed by the artist. 165 x 215mm (6½ x 8½").
Two men playing a game against a wall in a Spanish village.
[Ref: 60925]   £160.00   (£192.00 incl.VAT)
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Eileen Bennett
Eileen Bennett
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching signed by artist. 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"), with large margins, in original mount.
Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54853]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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[Eileen Bennett].
[Eileen Bennett].
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof, signed by artist. 100 x 125mm (4 x 5"), with very large margins.
Etching of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis, by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills.
[Ref: 54852]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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[Eileen Bennett].
[Eileen Bennett].
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching, proof, signed by artist. 175 x 140mm (7 x 5½"), with very large margins. Holes in margins where previously bound.
Portrait of Eileen Bennett (1907-1979) playing tennis. Bennett was a UK tennis player who won six Grand Slam titles. Bennett made it to the finals of both the French and US Championships and lost on two occasions to Helen Wills. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54851]   £350.00  
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Henri Cochet by Helen Wills.
Henri Cochet by Helen Wills.
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching signed by artist. 100 x 75mm (4 x 3"), with large large margins, in original mount.
Portrait of Henri Cochet (1901-1987) playing tennis. Cochet was a successful French tennis player, ranked number one from 1928 to 1931. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54854]   £350.00  
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Serment du Jeu de Paume a Versailles le 19 Juin 1789.
Serment du Jeu de Paume a Versailles le 19 Juin 1789.
Dessine par C. Monnet. Grave par Helman.
A Paris chez Decrouan Editeur, Rue de Rempart, 4, vis-a-vis le Theatre Francais [n.d., c.1850].
Engraving. Plate: 470 x 360mm (18½ x 14"). Staining, foxing and tears in margins.
A real tennis scene showing the meeting of the third estate who following their being barred from a meeting by the King pledge an oath not to leave the meeting until a new constitution was established. Having not been allowed into the meeting the assembly met in the royal tennis court at Versailles. A nineteenth century impression of the plate first published by Nicolas Ponce in 1792.
[Ref: 42760]   £230.00   (£276.00 incl.VAT)
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Serment du Jeu de Paume a Versailles le 19 Juin 1789.
Serment du Jeu de Paume a Versailles le 19 Juin 1789.
Dessine par C. Monnet. Grave par Helman.
A Paris chez Decrouan Editeur, Rue de Rempart, 4, vis-a-vis le Theatre Francais [n.d., c.1850].
Engraving. 630 x 830mm. Tear into the plate in the lower margin.
A real tennis scene showing the meeting of the third estate who following their being barred from a meeting by the King pledge an oath not to leave the meeting until a new constitution was established. Having not been allowed into the meeting the assembly met in the royal tennis court at Versailles. A nineteenth century impression of the plate first published by Nicolas Ponce in 1792.
[Ref: 40064]   £320.00  
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De Herberg en Kaatsbaan [The Inn and the Handball Court].
De Herberg en Kaatsbaan [The Inn and the Handball Court].
[n.d., c.1758.]
Engraving 90 x 85mm (3½ x 3¼"), set in letterpress. Some toning, tears and pinholes in margins. Creased. Some fading in the mans clothes and tree.
Four men playing handball, with two men at a table drinking. Underneath is a six-line verse describing the scene. From Spiegel van het Menselyk Bedryf' (Mirror of Human Activities.)
[Ref: 57560]   £80.00   (£96.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Jeu de Volant.
Le Jeu de Volant. Le Bon Génie, Journal des Enfants, 3e. année, No.17. Lith. No.3.
[Marlet.]
[n.d. 1830.]
Lithograph. 222 x 279mm (8¾ x 11"). Creasing.
Children outdoors playing battledore and shuttlecock, a game similar to modern badminton; a village and church seen in the background. One of a series published in a children's magazine.
[Ref: 29685]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)
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Der Fürstliche Lustgarten zu Nancy.
Der Fürstliche Lustgarten zu Nancy.
[Frankfurt am Main: Matthaus Merian, 1645.]
Etching, 17th century watermark. Sheet 255 x 370mm (10 x 14½"). Trimmed within plate, split in lower centre fold, creasing, spot in sky.
A view of the formal pleasure garden at Nancy. In the foreground a game of 'Pallone col bracciale' is being played: the players have a 'bracciale' (a wooden cylinder), on their forearms to hit a 'pallone' (inflated ball, the origin of the English word 'balloon'). In the middle, holding the pallone, is the 'mandarino', a server who plays no other part of the game.
[Ref: 58518]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Serment du Jeu de Paume, a Versailles.
Serment du Jeu de Paume, a Versailles. le 20 Juin 1789.
Prieur inv. & del. Berthault Sculp.
[Paris: Auber, 1804.]
Etching. Plate 240 x 285mm (9½ x 11¼"). Trimmed into plate at top, losing plate number. Foxing on right.
In June 1789, following a month-long deadlock in the States-General over constitutional reform at the royal palace of Versailles, the frustrated Third Estate (the commons), which had been locked out from the formal meeting place by King Louis XVI, declared itself a National Assembly, took over a royal tennis court, and on June 20th took an oath (serment) not to disperse till their demands were met. Three weeks later, on July 14th, a Paris mob attacked the Bastille prison. A rare image of a contemporary Real Tennis court. Published in the 'Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française'.
[Ref: 42161]   £260.00   (£312.00 incl.VAT)
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Games With The Ball - Tennis.
Games With The Ball - Tennis. The Court at Lord's.
R.S. Groom, Wilkinson & Co., Litho, St. Paul's Press. 3, 4 & 5, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.
London: Henry Lea & Co., 125, Fleet Street. [n.d., c.1860.]
Lithograph. Sheet 225 x 295mm. (9 x 11½").
A game in progress inside the real tennis court at Lord's. At the request of MCC members a tennis court was built in 1839, soon becoming the venue for major championship and exhibition games. From 'The Book of Field Sports and Library of Veterinary Knowledge' by Henry Downes Miles.
[Ref: 62120]   £290.00   (£348.00 incl.VAT)
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The Art of Tennis and How to Play it.
The Art of Tennis and How to Play it. - Showing the Various Strokes of the Game demonstrated by the Leading Players of England. Showing at this Cinema. Come and see the Game as it should be Played...The Scenarios and Sub-titles have been personally supervised and edited by Mr. Stanley N. Doust, the well-known Tennis Critic of the ''Daily Mail''. The Various actions demonstrating the different strokes are shown at normal speed, and immediately afterwards in Slow Motion.
Produced by the Parkstone Film Co. Ltd., Lytham. [n.d., 1925.]
Colour lithograph. 730 x 480mm (29 x 19"). A few small tears to edges.
A poster for a film demonstrating how to play tennis, starring a number of the leading players of the time: Joan Winifred Austin (1903-98), John David Patrick Wheatley (1899-1967), John Brian Gilbert (1887-1974), and Evelyn Lucy Colyer (1902-30). Joan Austin (sister of Bunny Austin, the last Brit to reach the reach the Men's final at Wimbledon before Andy Murray) was British Junior Girls Champion in 1921; in 1923 she and Evelyn Collier, known as 'The Babes', reached the Wimbledon doubles final but were beaten 6-3 6-1 by Suzanne Lenglen & Elizabeth Ryan.
[Ref: 48865]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
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Der Ballmeister.
Der Ballmeister.
[Johann Christoph Weigel. 1699.]
Engraving. Plate: 85 x 135mm, (3¼ x 5¼"); large margins.
A rare view of a German Renaissance tennis game with a 'ballmeister' standing with his hands in the air ready to catch a ball thrown by an opponent, they all stand in a ball court. An illustration from 'Abbildung der Gemain-Nutzlichen Haupt-Stande' published by J. C. Weigel (1654-1725) in 1699.
[Ref: 39552]   £360.00  
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Tennis Court.
Tennis Court.
[n.d., c.1850]
Pen and ink mss, 200 x 255mm. 8 x 10".
Hand-written instructions for laying an asphalt tennis court. Very early and important document.
Provenance: from a scrap album compiled c.1840 - 1880 by Alfred Towgood of Riverside, a paper mill owner at St. Neots, Huntingdon. He was also a Lieutenant in the Duke of Manchester.
[Ref: 16754]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
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William Tilden by Helen Wills.
William Tilden by Helen Wills. Forehand Chop.
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c.1930s].
Etching signed by artist. 195 x 140mm (7¾ x 5½"), with very large margins in original mount.
Portrait of William Tilden (1893 - 1953) playing tennis. Tilden was an American tennis player nicknamed 'Big Bill'. He held the world number one spot for six years, 1920 - 1925. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54836]   £350.00  
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Elsworth Vines by Helen Wills.
Elsworth Vines by Helen Wills.
Helen Wills [pencil signature].
[n.d. c. 1930s}.
Etching signed by the artist. 150 x 100mm (6 x 4"), with very large margins in original mount.
Portrait of Henry Ellsworth Vines (1911-1994) playing tennis. Vines was an American tennis player and was world number one between 1932-1935 and 1936-37. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54843]   £350.00  
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[Henry Ellsworth Vines.]
[Henry Ellsworth Vines.]
[Helen Wills]
[n.d. c. 1930s].
Etching, proof. 155 x 105mm (6 x 4¼"), with very large margins. Holes in margins where previously bound.
Portrait of Henry Ellsworth Vines (1911-1994) playing tennis. Vines was an American tennis player and was world number one between 1932-1935 and 1936-37. Etching by Helen Wills (1905-1998), who was a renowned tennis player herself, painted all her life and exhibited her paintings and etchings in New York galleries.
[Ref: 54842]   £250.00   (£300.00 incl.VAT)
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