France v. England, November 1920
the French sporting press, 1920
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 15% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe women’s game was international before the ban ever fell. In 1920 the Dick, Kerr Ladies played a French representative side home and away — the away leg in Paris drew crowds the men’s game would have envied — and the French sporting press put the fixture on its covers. This November 1920 cover of the France–England match is the women’s international as news event: not a curiosity item, a fixture. Within thirteen months the English FA closed its grounds to these players. The magazines had already printed the truth: the game was real, the crowds were real, and both were growing.
- Maker
- the French sporting press
- Date
- 1920
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Unknown photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Unknown photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01091
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.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | 73 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 12 x 18 in | 72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 54 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 43 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 15% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 36 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 29 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 24 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 21 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 887 x 1,298 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 19, lights 249 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0.9% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 78.94
- Notes
- Transparent areas flattened onto white
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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