A footballer, photographed alone in 1922 on a full plate, standing the way a stage actor of the period was photographed. This is a small revolution: for fifty years the game’s image had been crowds, teams and action, and the individual player existed mainly as a name in an agate-type line-up. By the 1920s he was a subject in his own right — worth a plate, a pose, and a lighting set-up. The star system arrived in football at almost exactly the moment it arrived in cinema, and for the same reason. Someone decided a player was worth a portrait, and the game was never collective again.

Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1922
Medium of the original: Glass plate negative
Original held by: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1922 · Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1922 · Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-01117

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 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
8 x 10 in	487	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
8 x 12 in	450	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
11 x 14 in	354	Excellent	Trimmed 8%
12 x 16 in	325	Excellent	Trimmed 3.6%
12 x 18 in	300	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
16 x 20 in	243	Excellent	Trimmed 9.7%
16 x 24 in	225	Excellent	Trimmed 7.8%
18 x 24 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 3.6%
20 x 30 in	180	Good	Trimmed 7.8%
24 x 30 in	162	Good	Trimmed 9.7%
24 x 36 in	150	Good	Trimmed 7.8%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
30 x 40 in	130 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned: 2026-10-07
Master file: 3,903 x 5,400 px, srgb
Tone: Darks 9, lights 184 of 255; 0.1% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
Colour: 0% vivid
Sharpness: 2.87