[CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA - RACIST PROPAGANDA] VINCENT, ALFRED JAMES "ALF"

Chinese Types. (Collected by Alf. Vincent in Asia.) [caption title]

(Sydney). The Bulletin. June 27, 1907. Stock ID #224952

Single leaf of printed caricatures from "The Bulletin", unrelated text on the verso, 42.5 x 28 cms, marginal edge chips and tears, the leaf slightly toned, but in very good condition.

Cartoonist Alfred "Alf" Vincent (1874-1915) contributed notable political cartoons to Melbourne "Punch", Sydney’s "The Bulletin", and its sister publication, "Lone Hand" (founded in the month before this cartoon was published). Both "The Bulletin" and "Lone Hand" espoused the themes of Australian individuality and mateship and support for the White Australia Policy. This “Chinese types" page consists of multiple individual character studies and portrait caricatures, using clean, minimalist pen strokes depicting hairstyles, costume, occupations, groups eating and washing which Vincent had observed in Canton. Caricatures of non-European populations from this era were heavily shaped by the sharp, xenophobic, and patronising political biases of the magazine's editors, even when presented as "travel sketches".

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