File:Parrywatercolour London Street Scene.png

Detail
This watercolour of a London Street by John Parry shows several posters. The text of the clearer posters reading from left to right follows.

Legend:
 * ? = text is too blurred to determine
 * / = text starts on new line
 * ... = text is too small to determine or is overposted
 * - = commentary on text colours or overposting, or guesses


 * THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII EVERY EVENING - white text on black
 * Vauxhall / M????Y / W????????AY / ??????????? - overlaid by other posters
 * HAVE YOU SEEN THE ILLUSTRIOUS FLEAS? - black on red
 * SPLENDID NEW COACH / COMET! / In 24 Hours / LIVERPOOL / EVERY MORNING AT 9 / Bull & Mouth / MAN.../EVE.../REG...
 * - Bull & Mouth was a London Coaching inn
 * FRENCH PLAYS / VKRTPRE... / BENEFIT / MAY 10
 * THAMES / TUNNEL
 * - possibly the Thames Tunnel, which at the time was walled off
 * MR MATHEWS / AT HOME / (unclear) / ADELPHI THEATRE
 * - "Mr. Mathews At Home with His Comic Annual" by Charles Mathews first performed at the Adelphi in 1833
 * JERUSALEM / IS NOW / OPEN - overposted with unclear HARLEY
 * HARLEY / THIS EVENING / THE SLAVE / ... / GRAND CONCERT
 * ST. JAMES THEATRE / JOHN PARRY / ... / THE SHAM PRINCE / .... / ??? VERY EARLY
 * John Orlando Parry's father John Parry (known as Bardd Alaw) composed The Sham Prince
 * - black text possible reads "HAVE YOU SEEN ..."
 * ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE / TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS - NATIVE TALE
 * / NOURJAHAD! / MOUNTAIN SYLPH / HERMANN! / EVERY EVENING
 * SPREAD EAGLE
 * PARIS - white on red, rest is overposted
 * OTELLO - being pasted up over:
 * - black text on blue paper possibly reads "...DEN / ... OF / L'ESTOCQ / .... EVENING"
 * - black text on beige paper possibly reads "... SOLD A FEMALE DONKEY ..."
 * ... / SHADOW on the WALL / ...
 * VESTRIS / ... / ... / THIS EVENING! / THE POWERFUL AND MAGNIFICENT STEAM COMP / FAVORITE / OSTEND
 * - possibly Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
 * ????LANE. / ...SPECTACLE / ... ?RTHUR / ... EVENING - blue background, possibly KING ARTHUR
 * - black text on white possibly reads "FRENCH PLAYS / Olympic Theatre"
 * ADELPHI THEATRE / EXTRAORDINARY HIT / THE LAST DAYS OF / POMPEII! / - overposted
 * - written by John Baldwin Buckstone and performed in 1834
 * ADELPHI / ROBERT MACAIRE / TOM & JERRY / THE CHRISTENING!! / !!!!!! / EVERY EVENING
 * - Robert Macaire is possibly the play composed by George Rodwell and performed in 18341834
 * - Tom and Jerry composed by G. W. Maddison in 1821, George Herbert 1822, performed by William Thomas Moncrieff in 1821, 1822, 1823, 1834, 1841, 1843
 * - The Christening written by John Baldwin Buckstone and performed in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1839
 * ????? THEATRE / BRAHAM / M?HARLEY / OBERON / ... / TOM ???MB / .east ... / ... / .ATERMAN / .RA DIAVOLO
 * - possibly John Braham's St. James's Theatre, which supposedly opened 1835-12-14
 * TWO LECTURES - overposted by:
 * BULL- / MOUTH!!! / BAR - first two lines white on black, BAR in red on white, probably the Coaching inn Bull and Mouth