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- Title:
Fives played at the Tennis court Leicester Fields
- Additional Title(s):
Games played in and around London
- Date:
- ca. 1784
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink and brown ink and watercolor
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 x 8in. (15.2 x 20.3cm), Frame: 7 11/16 × 9 1/4 × 5/16 inches (19.6 × 23.5 × 0.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
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:
- courts, tennis USE tennis+courts (built works) | fives | games | genre subject | leisure | sporting art | tennis
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Leicester | Leicestershire | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:54352
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Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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/ [Website]