Chung Ling Soo (William Ellsworth Robinson) | A fine portrait poster

Chung Ling Soo (William Ellsworth Robinson)

Chung Ling Soo. The Marvellous Chinese Conjurer. Ashton-under-Lyne: Horrocks & Co., ca. 1910

Tinted lithograph poster (29 1/4 x 19 7/8 in.; 745 x 505 mm). Printed lower left "Registered Design"; a few light creases and sort marginal tears, three pinholes at upper margin. Laid down on linen. 

An attractive portrait poster, with more subtle allusion to the magician's supposed ethnicity than most. The roundel portrait is displayed against a spray of chrysanthemums and appears to have been transferred from a half-tone photograph plate.