Descriptive Information

Title

The interior of the Fives Court.

Call Number

A West 24/Drawer 07/GC106/Full Folio/19th c./Artists M-Z GA 2005.01551

Identifier

ark:/88435/dcfq9787684

Publisher

1818.

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1818

Extent

1 item ; plate 45 x 60.2 cm. sheet 52.2 x 68.5 cm.

References

Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives and Badminton, Edited by Lord Aberdeer and Others. London Seeley Serice & Co. Limited, 1933.

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated

Notes

Medium: Aquatints

Item description: "Fives" is now a name which has a particular sense applicable only to two variations of a single game. Once it could be applied to all games played with the hand and the ball. And all games now played with a racket were once played with the hand and known to everyone as "Fives." Even Badminton is not excepted from this statement, for it is more than probable that the original shuttlecock was nothing more than a flying ball. It started being called Jeu de Paume, and was about playing with the fist, then the fist was covered with a leather glove as in boxing. The glove gave way and kept evolving till it ended up being the Tennis raquet. The main games where: Rackets, Squash Rackets, Tennis, Fives and Badminton. Fives itself was played using both hands. In 12th century France courts were erected, or a part of the building was put aside for play, at many castles, and this was but the small beginnings of a popularity which was to sweep the country.

Discovery Information

Subject

Fives (Game)—England—London—In art

Spectators—England—London—19th century—In art

Boxers (Sports)—England—London—19th century—In art

Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Omega Project

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/67f0dd4d-e027-47a3-b690-da982876ab3e/manifest

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