The 24th of April, 1927, at Colombes, and near the end of the Agence Rol’s great decade of football glass. Italy by now was a fully professional football country with a state that had noticed the sport’s usefulness, and France was about to become one. Within five years both would send full professional sides to the first European club competitions and the second World Cup. This plate is the last calm afternoon before that — an ordinary international, superbly photographed, at the closing of the amateur era. The photograph is ordinary. That it survives at 8,600 pixels is not.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1927
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1927 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1927 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01109

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	487	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
12 x 8 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
14 x 11 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 8.1%
16 x 12 in	324	Excellent	Trimmed 3.7%
18 x 12 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
20 x 16 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 16 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 7.7%
24 x 18 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 3.7%
30 x 20 in	180	Good	Trimmed 7.7%
30 x 24 in	162	Good	Trimmed 9.7%
36 x 24 in	150	Good	Trimmed 7.7%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
40 x 30 in	129 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 3,899 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 18, lights 207 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

0.7

Notes