El Primer Campeonato Mundial de Football
Guillermo Laborde, 1930
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 17% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe poster of the first World Cup, printed in Montevideo for a tournament nobody yet knew would own the century. Guillermo Laborde — painter, teacher, medalist of the Salón Nacional — won the poster competition with a design that is pure Uruguayan deco: the goalkeeper reaching across the sky, keeper, ball, and sun sharing one arc. Published 1930, it crossed into the American public domain in January 2026 — the newest old thing in the portfolio, sold strictly as the history it is. Every century’s game has a first morning; this is what it looked like printed.
- Maker
- Guillermo Laborde
- Date
- 1930
- Medium of the original
- Poster
- Original held by
- Guillermo Laborde, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Guillermo Laborde, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01083
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 17% crop |
| 8 x 12 in | 50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 12 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 12 x 18 in | 33 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 25 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 20 x 30 in | 20 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 17% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 16 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 36 x 48 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 40 x 60 in | 10 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 400 x 606 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 5, lights 247 of 255; 1.2% clipped light, 2% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 21.82
- Notes
- A plain margin is part of the file (11% of an edge): it prints as part of the picture
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