Lord Kinnaird, by Vanity Fair

Nine Cup finals, five winner’s medals, one red beard — the great amateur, in chromolithograph.

Work: Vanity Fair chromolithograph
Maker: Vanity Fair
Date: 1912
Era: The Edwardian game · 1901–1918
Source: Vanity Fair ('WH'), 1912 · Wikimedia Commons
Figure: Lord Kinnaird — publicity clear

The first celebrity of the game tackled like a landslide.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The great amateur of the first game. Arthur Fitzgerald, Lord Kinnaird, played in nine of the first twelve Cup Finals and won five — still the record — celebrated one final by standing on his head in front of the pavilion, and went on to preside over the Football Association for thirty-three years. Vanity Fair gave him its full chromolithograph treatment: the red beard, the long white trousers he wore in every final, the bearing of a man who owned the game socially and loved it anyway. Before the professionals arrived, football’s first celebrity was a bank director who tackled like a landslide.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

Lord Kinnaird, by Vanity Fair, 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.

Lord Kinnaird, by Vanity Fair framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of Vanity Fair chromolithograph — Vanity Fair, 1912 — from the copy held by Vanity Fair ('WH'), 1912 · 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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