England Rugby A Football Match Print - German Etching - 18x12inch

A print of the famous international rugby painting ‘A Football Match’ was one of the first Calcutta games in history between Scotland and England. The 1889 original painting depicts the match that was played at Raeburn Place in Edinburgh in 1886, and the painting was a collaboration between two well-known artists, William Heysham Overend and Lionel Percy Smythe. The result was a scoreless draw; Scotland had a try disallowed but did force England to touch down twice in defence. For the game, 12,000 spectators came to watch the historical spectacle between these great archrivals.