The Terraces
The ink — every line and halftone dot holds at full size

The Continent

France v Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921

A November international in the woods of Vincennes, caught in play.

Work
press photograph
Maker
Agence Rol
Date
1921
Ground
Stade Pershing, Bois de Vincennes, Paris
Era
The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica · via Wikimedia Commons
An international, caught unposed.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Stade Pershing, 13 November 1921: France against Holland, photographed in play by Agence Rol. The stadium in the Bois de Vincennes had been built two years earlier by the American army for the Inter-Allied Games, and it went on to host Coupe de France finals and, in 1922, the first Women’s World Games. A November international drew Paris out to the woods at the city’s edge, and the agency sent a photographer. The players are mid-game and unposed, and the picture keeps the weather of the day.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

France v Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921, 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 Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921 framed on the wall
France v Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921 framed on the wall
France v Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921 framed on the wall
France v Holland at the Stade Pershing, 1921 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

  • A reproduction of press photograph — Agence Rol, 1921 — 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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