Lawn Tennis Club (aka Tennis at Vechiville, France)

The rapid rise in popularity of lawn tennis was partly because it allowed young Victorian couples to meet in an informal setting. Frederick Arthur Bridgman depicts this social gathering in the 1891 oil painting this Rosenthal print is based on. A well-known American Orientalist painter, Bridgman was also a tennis player, and this served as a subject for his art. Philadelphia-born Albert Rosenthal studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and later in Paris and Munich.

Albert Rosenthal paid homage to Frederick Arthur Bridgeman by including this drawing of the American master on his etching.