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Description	Watercolor by John Orlando Parry, "A London Street Scene" 1835, in the Alfred Dunhill Collection.
Source	http://www.typophile.com/node/19107
Date	1835
Author	John Orlando Parry
Permission (Reusing this image)	The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. Under American copyright law, originality of expression is necessary for copyright protection, and a mere photograph of an out-of-copyright work may not be protected under American copyright law.
Other versions	Image:Parrywatercolour London Street Scene.png is higher resolution but slightly cropped

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

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... = text is too small to determine or is overposted

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• 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, perfomed 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

[edit] References

• The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900 Authors, Composers, and Titles. emich.edu. Retrieved on 2008-02-07.

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