France v. Switzerland, April 1923
Agence Rol, 1923
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 214 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 4.5% to the shape of the print.
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The 22nd of April, 1923, at the Stade Pershing. Switzerland were the best teachers France had: neutral through the war, organised early, and close enough to play often. The two met almost every year through the 1920s, and the French game measured itself against the result. What this plate shows is a Sunday international treated as routine — no coronation, no monarch, just two national sides and a Paris crowd on a spring afternoon. Routine is how a sport becomes permanent. Within a year Switzerland would be in an Olympic final. The rivalry that improves you is the one you play every year.
- Maker
- Agence Rol
- Date
- 1923
- Medium of the original
- Glass plate negative
- Original held by
- Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1923 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1923 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01103
| 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.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 450 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.9% |
| 14 x 11 in | 351 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.9% |
| 16 x 12 in | 322 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 18 x 12 in | 300 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.9% |
| 24 x 16 in | 225 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.9% |
| 24 x 18 in | 214 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.5% |
| 30 x 20 in | 180 | Good | Trimmed 6.9% |
| 36 x 24 in | 150 | Good | Trimmed 6.9% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 107 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 3,867 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 14, lights 225 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.2% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 0.33
- Notes
- Soft fine detail at full resolution: smaller sizes print crisper
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