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SEPTIMUS EDWIN SCOTT (1879-1965) GLENEAGLES / THE TENNIS GIRL. Circa 1925. 39 3/4x25 inches, 101x63 1/2 cm. Dobson, Molle & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh. Condition A-: minor repaired tears at edges; minor creases in margins and image. The Gleneagles hotel and golf resort was the brainchild of Donald A. Matheson, the General Manager of the Caledonian Railway, after he spent a holiday in the area in 1910. Construction on the Gleneagles hotel began before the First World War but wasn't completed until 1924. The golf courses were opened in 1919, before the construction of the hotel was finished. There is very little historical mention of tennis being played at this "Riviera in the Highlands," but as this poster clearly illustrates, there certainly appear to have been courts available for guests. In 1923, the Caledonian Railway was subsumed by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. Scott was a painter and illustrator whose landscapes were exhibited with the Royal Academy. He designed posters for the government during World War I and went on to more commercial work during the period between the wars, including a series of images for the LNER and LMS. In the late 1940s, he began drawing comic strips. Tennis p. 68.
