The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I
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Lot 380
CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 – 1918). Chung Li...
Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000
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CHUNG Ling Soo (William E. Robinson, 1861 ? 1918). Chung Ling Soo. Chinese Conjurer. Ashton-Under-Lyne: Horrocks & Co., ca. 1910. Three-sheet lithographed poster in blue, white, and black bearing a central full-length portrait of Soo, flanked by Chinese characters on either side and text at the top and bottom in English. With a three-dimensional shaded effect, giving the look of a photograph. 84 ? x 39?, with over-coloring to old folds throughout, and at sheet breaks; B. Linen backed. The only example of this poster with which we are acquainted.A half-sheet poster with a similar design was also produced by Horrocks. This is one of only a handful of three-sheet Soo posters extant, of any design.
