File:Parrywatercolour London Street Scene.png

File information

Description	Watercolor by John Orlando Parry, "A London Street Scene" 1835, in the Alfred Dunhill Collection.
Source	http://www.typeculture.com/academic_resource/articles_essays/pdfs/tc_article_33.pdf - PUNCH. CUTS. THE MODERN PAGE. ,. 1843. NICK SHINN
Date	1835
Author	John Orlando Parry (1810-01-03 – 1879-02-20)
Permission (Reusing this file)	This image is in the public domain because under the Copyright law of the United States, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright two-dimensional work may not be protected under American copyright law. The official position of the Wikimedia Foundation is that all reproductions of public domain works should be considered to be in the public domain regardless of their country of origin (even in countries where mere labor is enough to make a reproduction eligible for protection). PD Public domain false false This image is in the public domain in the United States. In most cases, this means that it was first published prior to January 1, 1929 (see the template documentation for more cases). Other jurisdictions may have other rules, and this image might not be in the public domain outside the United States. See Wikipedia:Public domain and Wikipedia:Copyrights for more details. PD-US Public domain in the United States //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parrywatercolour_London_Street_Scene.png because artist died in 1879, i.e. over 128 years ago
Other versions	Image:Parrywatercolour.jpg is lower resolution and has lossy compression, but is less cropped

Detail[edit]

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^[1]
• ADELPHI / ROBERT MACAIRE / TOM & JERRY / THE CHRISTENING!! / !!!!!! / EVERY EVENING
  • - Robert Macaire is possibly the play composed by George Rodwell and performed in 18341834^[1]
  • - 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^[1]
  • - The Christening written by John Baldwin Buckstone and performed in 1834, 1835, 1836, 1837, 1839^[1]
• ????? 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

References[edit]

• Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross. "The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900 Authors, Composers, and Titles". emich.edu. Retrieved 2008-02-07.

This media file is either in the public domain or published under a free license, and contains no inbound file links. If this media file is useful, then it should be transferred to the Wikimedia Commons. If this media is not useful, then please propose it for deletion or list it at files for discussion.

This file is a candidate to be copied to Wikimedia Commons. Any user may perform this transfer; refer to Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons for details. If this file has problems with attribution, copyright, or is otherwise ineligible for Commons, then remove this tag and DO NOT transfer it; repeat violators may be blocked from editing. Other Instructions Endorse this file for transfer by adding |human=<your username> to this Template. If this file is freely licensed, but otherwise unsuitable for Commons (e.g. out of Commons' scope, still copyrighted in the US), then replace this Template with {{Do not move to Commons|reason=<Why it can't be moved>}} If you think that a local copy of this file should be retained, then replace this Template with {{Keep local|reason=<Why a local copy is needed>}} Please ensure that the file has a properly descriptive and unambiguous name before transferring; see Wikipedia:File mover#What files should be renamed? for details.

This file was suggested for transfer by a bot (User:Fbot). Please verify that this file is suitable for Commons before transferring it.