File:John Parry's The Wedding Breakfast at Mrs. Roseleaf's at The Royal Gallery of Illustration - Original.jpg
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| Description | Advertisement, drawn by the performer, John Parry, for an 1866 entertainment at The Royal Gallery of Illustration. In an obituary for Parry published on 28.02.1879 an article from 25 March 1927 described it as: "ttle more than a decade ago “The Wedding Breakfast” and “The Musical Party,” at the Gallery of Illustration, were the delight of the town. The curtain rose and displayed a middle-aged gentleman, of much the same light build and airy manner as the late Charles Mathews, in evening dress, seated before a piano. That was all the apparatus which the magician wanted. The fingers ran lightly and at random over the keys, the player keeping up the while an easy chat with his audience. He prepared his hearers for what was coming, and told them who were coming. Presently they came. What the concert is to the opera, the entertainment is to the theatre. A visit to the theatre presents itself as more or less of a serious undertaking to many estimable people. The entertainment is shorter as to time, and simpler as to quality. For the place which it has thus acquired, and the associations with which it has thus clothed itself, it is mainly if not entirely indebted to the art, the grace, we may even say the genius, of John Parry." | ||||
| Date | June 1st, 1866 | ||||
| Source | Folger Shakespeare Library | ||||
| Author | John Orlando Parry (1810-1879) | ||||
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| current | 20:30, 18 October 2022 | | 4,379 × 5,794 (4.17 MB) | Adam Cuerden | {{Information |Description=Advertisement, drawn by the performer, John Parry, for an 1866 entertainment at [[:en:The Royal Gallery of Illustration. In an obituary for Parry published on 28.02.1879 [http://cynonculture.co.uk/wordpress/london-welsh/john-orlando-parry-1810-1879/ an article from 25 March 1927] described it as: "ttle more than a decade ago “The Wedding Breakfast” and “The Musical Party,” at the Gallery of Illustration, were the delight of the town. The curtain rose and displayed... |
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