English clubs had been touring the Continent since the 1890s, playing exhibition matches that taught the game as much as any coaching manual, and almost none of it was photographed properly. This is the exception: a London side at the Stade Bergeyre on the 15th of May, 1921, caught on an Agence Rol glass plate at a resolution the English press of the day could not have dreamed of. The tour match was the game’s real export mechanism — not the rulebook, the visit. Every continental club that got good got good by losing to someone like this first. Football was taught by demonstration, on tour, in the spring.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1921
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1921 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1921 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01100

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
10 x 8 in	490	Excellent	Trimmed 9.2%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 8.2%
14 x 11 in	356	Excellent	Trimmed 7.6%
16 x 12 in	326	Excellent	Trimmed 3.2%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 8.2%
20 x 16 in	245	Excellent	Trimmed 9.2%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 8.2%
24 x 18 in	217	Excellent	Trimmed 3.2%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 8.2%
30 x 24 in	163	Good	Trimmed 9.2%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 8.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	130 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

5,400 x 3,922 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 0, lights 236 of 255; 0% clipped light, 6.7% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

1.01

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