Over the years various artists have created paintings and other fine art that in one way or another are related to the sport of Badminton. While much of this work is early enough that it predates organized Badminton, the "battledore and shuttlecock" roots of our sport are clearly well represented.
This page is a pointer to selected pieces. Where possible locations of the originals are listed so that if you are in the correct area you can view them. If you know the location of other pieces or can augment or correct this page please let me know. Also in many cases it is possible to buy quality prints or hires bitmaps of the art. I have included selected links, though other sources are likely extant.
Please note that I have not included hi-resolution pictures of the various pieces since the intention of this page is merely as a reference. Find the actual artwork for better pictures and/or reproductions.
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Title: Portrait of a Young Girl with Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: c. 1620 Per Wikimedia Commons the subject is Queen Christina of Sweden at age 6 in 1632 Artist: unknown - Anglo-Flemish school Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 1100x850 mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Two Women Playing Battledore and Shuttlecock. Date: c. 1620 Artist: Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662), Netherlands. Medium: Watercolour with bodycolour, over black chalk, heightened with silver and gold Dimensions: 96x152 mm Original is located at: British Museum, London, England Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Le Jue du Volant Date: late 17th Century Artist: Nicolas Arnoult (ca 1650- ca 1722) Medium: print - engraving and etching on laid paper Dimensions: 140x89 mm Original is located at: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Reproductions Available: All Posters |
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Title: Courtesan Striking a Shuttlecock with a Battledore Date: c. 1710 Artist: Okumura Masanobu (1686-1764) Medium: Woodblock print, ink on paper Dimensions: 650x320mm Original is located at: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio, USA. Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Elegant Figures Playing Shuttlecock in a Park Date: ca. 1725-33 Artist: Pierre-Antoine Quillard (1700-1733) Medium: Dimensions: mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Diversion of Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: Artist: Nathaniel Parr (1723–1751) After Francis Hayman, (1707/8–1776), British Medium: Engraving Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Girl With Shuttlecock Date: c. 1740 Artist: Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 820x660 mm Original is located at: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Reproductions Available: Fine Art America , Barewalls |
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Title: Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: c. 1740 Artist: Francis Hayman, (1707/8–1776), British Medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper Dimensions: 143x229 mm Original is located at: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Portrait of Two Boys Date: 1740-42 Artist: Francis Hayman, (1707/8–1776), British Medium: painting, oil on canvas Dimensions: 368x279 mm Original is located at: Gainsborough's House - Sudbury (United Kingdom - Sudbury, Suffolk) Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Games, Shuttlecock Date: 1752 Artist: Giuseppe Zocchi (c. 1716/17-67), Italian. Medium: Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Florence,Italy. Reproductions Available: Art.Com |
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Title: Young Thomas Aston Coffin with Battledore and Shuttlecock. Date: 1758 Artist: John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 1270x1016 mm Original is located at: National Portrait Gallery Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Portrait of a Boy Date: c. 1758-60 Artist: John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 1236x921 mm Original is located at: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA. Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: unknown Date: likely mid 1700's Artist: unknown Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Original is located at: Town Hall at Portmeirion, North Wales Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Henry Stawell Bilson Legge, 2nd Lord Stawell (1757 - 1820), as a boy
Date: c. 1764 Artist: Adrien Carpentiers (c. 1713-1778) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 711x610 mm Original is located at: Lodge Park and Sherborne Estate, Gloucestershire, UK Reproductions Available: Bridgeman Images |
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Title: The Norman Gate and Deputy Governor's House Date: 1765 Artist: Paul Sandby (1731-1809) Medium: "Gouache on thick, cream, slightly textured laid paper" Dimensions: 540x380 mm Original is located at: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Portrait of sisters Frances and Sarah Delaval. Date: 1771 Artist: William Bell (c. 1740-c.1804) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 2360x1475 mm Original is located at: National Trust, Seaton Delaval Hall. The Avenue, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland, England. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Boy with Battledore and Shuttlecock, Possibly of the Crossfield Family. Date: c. 1770-75 Artist: William Williams SR. (1727-1791) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 1347x910 mm Original is located at: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: John Donnelly at 9 years old, Blackwater Town Date: c 1775 Artist: Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 1176x870 mm Original is located at: Tennis Australia, Melbourne, Australia Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Fly . from "Songs of Innocence and Experience", plate
48. Date: 1794 Artist: William Blake (1757-1827), British Medium: "Color-printed relief etching with pen and ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper" Dimensions: 73x117 mm Original is located at: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Children of Frederick and Ellen Ray of Abingdon Date: 1795 Artist: John Downman (1750-1824). Welsh. Medium: Watercolor with pencil drawing Dimensions: 432x508 mm mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Badminton Victory (Divertimento per li Ragazzi) Date: c. 1797 Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) Italian Medium: Pen and ink, wash and brush over black chalk on white paper Dimensions: 294x414 mm Original is located at: RISD Museum, Providence RI, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Girl and a Hagoita (Japanese Battledor and Shuttlecock) Date: ~1815 Artist: Kubo Shunman (1757–1820), Japanese Medium: Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper Dimensions: 202x184 mm Original is located at: Met Museum, New York Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Children of Nathan Starr playing battledore & shuttlecock indoors. Middletown, Connecticut. Date: 1835 Artist: Ambrose Andrews (1805- c.1877) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 721x927 mm Original is located at: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Bat Game in the Grand Hall, Parham Park, Sussex, c. 1600.
From "Architecture of the Middle Ages", 1838 Date: 1838 Artist: Joseph Nash (1809-1878) Medium: color lithograph Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: All Posters |
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Title: James Donnelly with Dog, Badminton Racquet, and Shuttlecock. Date: 1843 Artist: William Buckler (1814-1884) Medium: watercolour Dimensions: 550x390 mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Auctioned Sep 2007 by Lacy Scott & Knight |
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Title: A Game of Badminton Date: ?? Artist: Johan Friedrich Hennings (1835-1898) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 770x1080 mm Original is located at: ?? Reproductions Available: 1st Art Gallery |
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Title: Games with Grandfather Date: 18?? Artist: Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835-1898), Scottish Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Shuttlecock Date: 18?? Artist: Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835-1899), Scottish Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 495x737 mm Original is located at: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Boy Holding Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: Artist: Jan Adam Janszoon Kruseman (1804-1862) Medium: Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: |
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Title: A Game of Badminton Date: late 1800's Artist: Theodore Levigne (1848-1912), French Medium: Dimensions: Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: late 1800's Artist: Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852-1909), British Medium: painting, oil on canvas Dimensions: 914x609mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Promenade Date: late 1800's Artist: Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer (1839-1902), French Medium: painting, oil on canvas Dimensions: 858x1508 mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Fine Art America |
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Title: Shuttlecock and Battledore Date: 1870 Artist: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 1065x445 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Study for Battledove and Shuttlecock Date: c. 1871 Artist: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893) Medium: Black and white chalk over graphite on brown wove paper Dimensions: 235x368 mm Original is located at: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Shuttlecock and Battledore Date: 1872 Artist: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 370x152 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: 1872 Artist: Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893), English Medium: stained glass panel (glass, metal, paint, wood) Dimensions: 1250x650 mm Original is located at: Tennis Australia, Melbourne, Australia Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Shuttlecock Player Date: 1874 Artist: L. Davis (19th Century) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: ?? mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: Bridgeman Images |
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Title: The Stray Shuttlecock Date: 1878 Artist: Frank Dillon (1823-1909), British Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 900x1270 mm Original is located at: Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: 1879 Artist: Alexandre-Louis Leloir (1843-1884) French Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 476x606 mm Original is located at: Sold by Christies November 1999 Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Young Ladies Playing Badminton.(Jeunes Filles Jouant au Nolant) Date: c1887 Artist: Pierre August Renoir (1841-1919) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 546x652 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: NOTE: This one sold at auction 7MAY2014 (local copy of article) for $11.4M. |
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Title: Badminton Game, Whitchurch Date: 18?? Artist: Fred Mayor (1866-1916) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 535x635 mm Original is located at: Government Art Collection, London, England. Currently appears to be at British ambassador's residence in Brussels. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Girl With Shuttlecock. (aka Jeanne Bonnet) Date: 1888 Artist: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) Medium: drawing- pastel on grey paper Dimensions: 735x1010 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Summer Shower Date: 1888 Artist: Charles Edward Perugini (1839-1918) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 1156x765 mm Original is located at: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England Reproductions Available: All Posters |
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Title: Open Air Breakfast Date: 1888 Artist: William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 950x1440 mm Original is located at: The Toledo Museum of Art Reproductions Available: 1st Art Gallery |
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Title: Hide and Seek Date: 1890 Artist: Paul Adouard Rosset-Granger (1853-1934) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 1400x1800 mm Original is located at: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Marseille, France Reproductions Available: All Posters |
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Title: A Game of Shuttlecock Date: 1892 Artist: Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 480x1170 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Three Women Playing Shuttlecock Date: ca 1890-95 Artist: Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933), British Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 270x265 mm Original is located at: National Museums Liverpool, England. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Battledore and Shuttlecock Date: 189? Artist: David Young Cameron (1865-1945), Scottish Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 343x425 mm Original is located at: Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, Scotland. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: A Game of Shuttlecock Date: 1900 Artist: Maurice Denis (1870-1943) Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 1270x3000 mm Original is located at: Musee dOrsay, Paris, France Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Battledore Date: 1906 Artist: Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874-1969) Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 256x353 mm Original is located at: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: The Badminton Court Date: 1926 Artist: Frederick William Elwell (1870-1958), British Medium: Oil on plywood Dimensions: 915x710 mm Original is located at: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Study for Shuttlecocks Date: c.1934 Artist: William Roberts (1895-1980) Medium: Graphite on paper Dimensions: 165x121 mm Original is located at: Tate Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Badminton, Coonoor, India Date: 19?? Artist: Andrew Macara (1944-) Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 760x630 mm Original is located at: private collection Reproductions Available: Bridgeman Images |
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Title: The Badminton Game Date: 1972 Artist: David Inshaw (1943-) Medium: Oil paint on canvas Dimensions: 1500x1800 mm Original is located at: acquired from the artist by the Tate Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: Red Rag Art Gallery |
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Title: Girl Sitting in Garden Date: 1975 Artist: David Inshaw (1943-) Medium: Oil paint on canvas Dimensions: 470x450 mm Original is located at: Tate Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art as a net With Shuttlecocks Date: 1992 Artist: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Medium: Graphite and pastel on paper Dimensions: 765x1016 mm Original is located at: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansa City, Missouri, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Shuttlecocks Date: 1994 Artist: Claes Oldenburg (1929-) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) Medium: aluminum and fiberglass-reinforced plastic, paint Dimensions: 3 pieces, 4600*6100 mm Original is located at: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park Kansas City, Missouri, USA Reproductions Available: Fine Art America has various pictures from multiple photographers available as prints |
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Title: Badminton. From the Olympic Suite. Date: 1994 Artist: Rosa Serra Medium: Sculpture, Glossy, gold-colored bronze Dimensions: 800x600x440 mm Original is located at: The Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Soft Shuttlecock Date: 1994 Artist: Claes Oldenburg (1929-) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) Medium: Sculpture, canvas and wood, painted with latex, Dimensions: 330x2030x2030 mm Original is located at: The Pace Gallery, New York NY USA Reproductions Available: original is for sale |
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Title: Shuttlecock on a High Wire Date: 1995 Artist: Claes Oldenburg (1929-) Medium: lithograph Dimensions: 286x210 mm Original is located at: Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York NY USA Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Soft Shuttlecock Date: 1995 Artist: Claes Oldenburg (1929-) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) Medium: Sculpture, Canvas, expanded polyurethane foam, polyethylene foam, steel, aluminum, rope, wood, duct tape, fiberglass, and reinforced plastic, painted with latex, Dimensions: 9 feathers, each approximately 7900x2000 mm ; head approximately 1800x1800x1000 mm Original is located at: Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two Date: 1995 Artist: Claes Oldenburg (1929-) and Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) Medium: Graphite, fabricated chalk, and pastel on paper Dimensions: 700x1000 mm Original is located at: Whitney Museum of American Art, new York, NY, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: What A Racket Date: Artist: Russell Pierce Medium: "mixed media" Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Fine Art America |
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Title: Badminton Date: 19?? Artist: Tim Kennedy (1954-), American Medium: Oil on linen Dimensions: 1200x1000 mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: |
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Title: The Badminton Club Date: 2003 Artist: Ralph Neimans (1970-), Australian Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 700x1020 mm Original is located at: private collection, London Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Shuttlecock Date: 20?? Artist: Tyler Kimball (198?-), American Medium: glass Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Tyler has produced multiple similar shuttlecocks as a glassblower in Kansas City. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Two sets of a Paddle and a Shuttlecock Date: 2008 Artist: Chihiro Coyo (1984-), Japanese Medium: Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 370x260 mm Original is located at: Japigozzi Collection, Geneva Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Shuttlecock Date: 2009 Artist: Aoife Collins (198?-), Irish Medium: photogram - silver gelatin print Dimensions: 280x360 mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Badminton Player Date: c. 2012 Artist: Paul Mitchell (1974-), English Medium: pastel on paper Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Fine Art America |
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Title: Wild Badminton Birdie Date: 2013 Artist: Max Johns Medium: colored pencil and pen Dimensions: mm Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Society6 |
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Title: Sailing Shuttlecock Date: c. 2013 Artist: Rocky Johnson Medium: digital Dimensions: -- Original is located at: Reproductions Available: Fine Art America |
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Title: Badminton Date: c. 2013 Artist: Jean A. Cormier Medium: Acrylic and gouache on stretched canvas Dimensions: 305x305 mm Original is located at: ?? Reproductions Available: Fine Art America |
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Title: Badminton trunks Date: c. 2014 Artist: Louise Bourne Medium: oil on linen Dimensions: 610x610mm Original is located at: as of October 2014 is on display by the artist at the Gallery at the Grand, Kennebunk, Maine, USA. Reproductions Available: ?? |
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Title: Shuttlecock Date: 2015 Artist: Sarah Illenberger Medium: fine art print Dimensions: 500x650mm Original is located at: with artist Reproductions Available: From the artist's shop on Tictail |
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Title: Shuttlecock Kansas City sculpture portrayed using Representational Pointillism Date: 2016 Artist: John Gilluly Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 508x406mm Original is located at: with artist and is for sale as of December 2016 Reproductions Available: From Fine Art America on various media |
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Title: A Little Help? Sidewalk Chalk Art Date: 2021 Artist: David Zinn Medium: Chalk on Sidewalk Dimensions: Original is located at: this is ephemeral art - original no longer exists Reproductions Available: Temporary Street Art by David Zinn |
Badminton also has figured in many political cartoons, flyers, post cards and so on that can't be considered "Fine Art" but are nonetheless interesting.
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'Political amusements for young gentlemen; - or - the Old Brentford shuttlecock, between Old Sarum, and the Temple of St Steevens' Date: 1801 Artist: James Gillray (1757-1815) Medium: hand-colored etching and soft-ground etching Dimensions: 258x359 mm Original is located at: National Portrait Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: National Portrait Gallery, London, England. |
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Title: A Game of Political Shuttlecock Date: 1831 Artist: John (HB) Doyle (1797-1868) Medium: lithograph Dimensions: 286x415 mm Original is located at: National Portrait Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: National Portrait Gallery, London, England. |
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Title: The Shuttlecock Ministry (Daniel O'Connell; Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Bt) Date: 1840 Artist: John (HB) Doyle (1797-1868) Medium: lithograph Dimensions: 298x437 mm Original is located at: National Portrait Gallery, London, England Reproductions Available: National Portrait Gallery, London, England. |
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Title: Badminton, From the Geisha Series Date: 1900 Artist: Raphael Kirchner (1876-1917) Medium: postcard - Color lithograph on card stock Dimensions: 140x89 mm Original is located at: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Reproductions Available: |
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Title: Badminton Date: c. 1902 Artist: Raphael Kirchner (1876-1917) Medium: postcard - Color lithograph on card stock Dimensions: 89x140 mm Original is located at: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA. Reproductions Available: |