Talk:John Orlando Parry

Further notes
According to the Welsh dictionary of national biography, his father was an important bard and premier quality harpist. He, himself, continued to write music for the harp into his retirement. There's a Welsh aspect to this that's struggling to get out, but appears largely undocumented. Kbthompson 11:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

London Street Scene detail
I have uploaded a higher resolution version of Image:Parrywatercolour.jpg to Image:Parrywatercolour London Street Scene.png. Out of curiosity I then transcribed as much of the posters' text as possible and added it to the description pages for both images. In case anyone is interested, derived versions of the larger image could be cropped and used for some of the wikilinked articles.

For convenience, here is a copy of the "transcript".

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. See Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross. "The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900 Authors, Composers, and Titles", emich.edu
 * ADELPHI / ROBERT MACAIRE / TOM & JERRY / THE CHRISTENING!! / !!!!!! / EVERY EVENING
 * - Robert Macaire is possibly the play composed by George Rodwell and performed in 1834. See Nelson and Cross
 * - Tom and Jerry composed by G. W. Maddison in 1821, George Herbert 1822, perfomed by William Thomas Moncrieff in 1821, 1822, 1823, 1834, 1841, 1843. See Nelson and Cross
 * - The Christening written by John Baldwin Buckstone and performed in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1839. See Nelson and Cross
 * ????? THEATRE / BRAHAM / M?HARLEY / OBERON / ... / TOM ???MB / .east ... / ... / .ATERMAN / .RA DIAVOLO
 * - possibly John Braham's St. James's Theatre, which supposedly opened 14 December 1835
 * 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

-Wikianon (talk) 13:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)