The King at the Final, 1914

George V presents the Cup at the Palace — the first monarch ever to attend a final.

Work: press photograph, 25 April 1914
Maker: press photograph
Date: 1914
Ground: Crystal Palace, London
The crowd: 72,778
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Unknown press photographer, 1914 · Wikimedia Commons
Figure: George V — publicity clear

The game joined the national furniture.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The 25th of April, 1914: George V becomes the first reigning monarch to attend a Cup Final, and the game’s admission to the national furniture is complete. Burnley beat Liverpool 1–0 before 72,778 at the Crystal Palace, and the photograph that mattered was not the goal but this — the King, in a bowler like everyone else’s, presenting the Cup while the crowd presses close enough to touch the ceremony. Forty years earlier the game was a novelty of the public schools and the mill towns. Now the Crown showed up. The bowler hat did more for football than any decree.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The King at the Final, 1914, 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.

The King at the Final, 1914 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of press photograph, 25 April 1914 — press photograph, 1914 — from the copy held by Unknown press photographer, 1914 · 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.

From the same hand