The 31st of October, 1920, at the Stade Pershing: the English women’s side against a French representative team, in front of a Paris crowd, photographed on a full glass plate by a news agency that treated it as news. This is the fixture the house already holds as a magazine cover; here is the match itself. Thirteen months later the English Football Association would close every affiliated ground to women’s football, and the ban would stand for fifty years. Nothing in this photograph suggests a curiosity. It is a proper international, properly covered. The ban was not a response to failure. It was a response to success.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1920
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01122

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	491	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
14 x 11 in	357	Excellent	Trimmed 7.3%
16 x 12 in	327	Excellent	Trimmed 2.8%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
20 x 16 in	245	Excellent	Trimmed 8.9%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 8.5%
24 x 18 in	218	Excellent	Trimmed 2.8%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 8.5%
30 x 24 in	163	Good	Trimmed 8.9%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 8.5%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	131 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
48 x 36 in	109 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 3,935 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 12, lights 187 of 255; 0% clipped light, 2.4% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 2.45