“Modern Impressionist Art — a Football Match

“Modern Impressionist Art — a Football Match R. C. Carter [?]. Signed upper left. Punch (4 November 1903): 323. Click on image to enlarge it.

The cartoonist, who parodies Degas and other impressionists who employ cropping of the subject similar to photograph, depicts a Rugby scrum and not what Britons today call football and Americans soccer (from Association Football).

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