Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/04/2013
7:00 pm
Location
Glyndwr University
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John Orlando Parry (1810–79) was a musician, artist, entertainer, comedian, singer and song writer, and a popular figure in Victorian society, collaborating with the likes of Charles Dickens and Franz Liszt. Despite this he remains an elusive figure, partly because his work spanned so many different fields.
An inheritor of the Welsh musical and poetic traditions through his father, the Welsh musician John Parry (Bardd Alaw), he became a metropolitan and cosmopolitan figure as a song writer and performer, more at home on the London stage or the European concert platform than in rural Wales.
Despite being a self-taught artist, he produced one of the most famous nineteenth century images of London streets, which showed a wall covered with advertisements for plays and concerts.
In this illustrated lecture, Brian Maidment, Professor of the History of Print at Liverpool John Moores University, seeks to position Parry both within and against the British tradition of comic art in the 1840s and 1850s. If unlikely to become a major figure, Parry is nonetheless well worthy of serious consideration as a comic artist.
Free event. To book email lectures@glyndwr.ac.uk or call 01978 293466.
