The Dutch Eleven Before Uruguay, 1924

A team photographed minutes before the semi-final that ended their tournament.

Work: team photograph, Olympic tournament, Paris 1924
Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1924
Ground: Paris
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown photographer, 1924 · Wikimedia Commons

Half of football history is the photograph taken just before.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

The Netherlands lined up at the Paris Olympics in 1924 before facing Uruguay in the semi-final, and lost 2–1. The Dutch were an established, well-drilled, thoroughly European side — exactly the standard the Continent had spent twenty years building — and they were beaten by something they had no answer to. There is a particular poignancy to a team photograph taken before a defeat that turns out to be historic; everyone in it is about to become part of somebody else’s story. Half of football history is the photograph taken just before.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

The Dutch Eleven Before Uruguay, 1924, 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 Dutch Eleven Before Uruguay, 1924 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of team photograph, Olympic tournament, Paris 1924 — Unknown photographer, 1924 — from the copy held by Unknown photographer, 1924 · 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