France v England at Colombes, 1927

England come to the Olympic stadium three years after the Games, 26 May 1927.

Work: press photograph
Maker: Agence Rol
Date: 1927
Ground: Stade de Colombes, Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons

The old masters, on the Olympic grass.

Format

The full-resolution scan, colour-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Size

$29.00

The story

Colombes, 26 May 1927: France against England in the stadium that had held the 1924 Olympic final. The photograph is from Agence Rol, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France catalogues it under the stadium’s later name, Stade Yves du Manoir, which it took in 1928 in memory of the rugby player. The ground then held 45,000 and would grow past 60,000. England were the visitors, the old masters of the game on a Paris afternoon, and the agency photographed the match for the next day’s papers.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

France v England at Colombes, 1927, printed large and framed — in the den, the club bar, the supporters’ bar. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

France v England at Colombes, 1927 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of press photograph — Agence Rol, 1927 — from the copy held by Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons. The source. The work was published before 1931 and is public-domain verified.
Printed faithful to that source scan — restore honestly, disclose always. We do not re-colour it, complete it, or interpret it; the piece you receive is the image as it survives, halftone grain honored as history, not damage.
Printed to order on museum-grade cotton-rag stock with pigment inks — the pairing is rated 100+ years.
Colour-managed to the source; the tone of the paper and the ink is the period’s, not ours.
Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed editions ship flat-packed).
If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our pieces cost more than a poster: a poster is a mass run on wood-pulp stock, colour-corrected to whatever flattered the press that day. This is one sheet, pulled for you, at a size where the maker’s hand is visible — the linework, the halftone grain, the lettering — on materials made to outlast their owner.

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