Stevengraph picture 'The First Touch' woven in silk and mounted on card, designed and made by Thomas Stevens, Coventry, 1850s-1870sStevengraph picture woven in silk and mounted on card. Showing a scene from a rugby football match with one team about to score. The players are shown in caps and breeches, one team in blue shirts and the other in yellow, on a green-blue pitch. Both teams wear white breeches and black socks. On a beige mount inscribed 'The First Touch'. On the reverse is a trade label listing other Stevengraphs printed in 1881.