A Geneva Eleven, 1920

A panoramic team plate nearly three times as wide as it is tall — the whole club, ground included.

Work: panoramic club photograph
Maker: Unknown photographer
Date: 1920
Ground: Geneva, Switzerland
Era: The interwar game · 1919–1930
Source: Unknown photographer, 1920 · Wikimedia Commons

Period crests or marks appear inside this historic work. They are reproduced solely as part of the historical document, under the house’s historical-document doctrine — nothing modern is used or sold.

A portrait not of people but of a Sunday.

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Geneva, 1920, photographed on a panoramic plate: not a portrait of eleven men but of a whole club and the ground it played on, laid out in a strip almost three times wider than it is tall. Swiss football in 1920 was among the best organised in Europe — neutral through the war, playing continuously while every neighbour stopped — and four years later Switzerland would reach the Olympic final. The format is the point here. Hung, it is a horizon. Some photographs are portraits of people; this one is a portrait of a Sunday.

See it on your wall

The piece, in the room it was made for

A Geneva Eleven, 1920, 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.

A Geneva Eleven, 1920 framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A reproduction of panoramic club photograph — Unknown photographer, 1920 — from the copy held by Unknown photographer, 1920 · 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