{"product_id":"chung-ling-soo-marvellous-chinese-conjurer-dragon-1900s","title":"Chung Ling Soo 1900s | Marvellous Chinese Conjurer Dragon Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eA silver dragon strides across an amber diagonal with its claws out, and the conjurer's name is tucked into the corner above it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Upton Ltd. of Birmingham lithographed the poster. William Ellsworth Robinson took on the Chung Ling Soo persona around 1900, when he took a job at the Folies Bergère in Paris and kept up the fiction of a Chinese identity for nearly two decades, performing across Britain and Europe. In 1915 he was filmed greeting First World War veterans at a benefit performance. He was killed at the Wood Green Empire when his bullet-catch illusion misfired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe McCord Stewart Museum holds an impression of this poster (accession M2014.128.439).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOn the poster\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlame motifs curl at the dragon's head and tail, and behind it the ground is solid black. In the upper-right field the billing runs in three tiers of white and coral lettering: \"CHUNG LING SOO\" at the top, \"MARVELLOUS CHINESE\" in italic below, and \"CONJURER\" in the largest slab-serif at the base. A circular yellow-bordered medallion at lower right holds a monochrome portrait of the performer in formal dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diagonal divides the sheet from lower-left to upper-right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this print\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Poster Archives","offers":[{"title":"A4","offer_id":64852050510201,"sku":"VPA-14161-A4","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A3","offer_id":64890310885753,"sku":"VPA-14161-A3","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2","offer_id":64894654939513,"sku":"VPA-14161-A2","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0994\/1139\/4937\/files\/Advertising-ChungLingSoo-MarvellousChineseConjurer-1900s__VPA-14161_aef7cfbb-1289-4016-a033-036580136d2d.jpg?v=1792071672","url":"https:\/\/vintageposterarchives.com\/products\/chung-ling-soo-marvellous-chinese-conjurer-dragon-1900s","provider":"Vintage Poster Archives","version":"1.0","type":"link"}