Lisbon and Barcelona in Paris, Boxing Day 1920
Agence Rol, 1920
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 215 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 4.1% to the shape of the print.
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The 26th of December, 1920, at the Stade Pershing: a Lisbon side and a Barcelona side, playing each other in Paris. Nobody involved was at home. Within twenty years of leaving Britain the game had become the first genuinely international leisure habit of the modern world, and this plate is what that looked like before anyone had a word for it — three countries in one fixture, arranged by nothing more than the fact that everyone now played the same game by the same rules. The Agence Rol photographer treated it as ordinary news, which is the remarkable part. The rules travelled faster than anything else Britain exported.
- 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-01099
| 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 7.3% |
| 14 x 11 in | 352 | Excellent | Trimmed 8.5% |
| 16 x 12 in | 323 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.1% |
| 18 x 12 in | 300 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.3% |
| 24 x 16 in | 225 | Excellent | Trimmed 7.3% |
| 24 x 18 in | 215 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.1% |
| 30 x 20 in | 180 | Good | Trimmed 7.3% |
| 36 x 24 in | 150 | Good | Trimmed 7.3% |
| 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 | 129 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 3,882 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 26, lights 188 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.11
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