Parry family of Manchester and London, artists, papers and sketches
1817-1905
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Total copies: 1
Papers relating to Joseph Parry 1744-1826: sketch book [of Joseph Parry] c1815. Papers relating to David Henry Parry 1793-1826: sketches 1817-c1825; notes on art 1823; letter announcing his death from A W Mills 1826. Engravings and sketches of James Parry 1805-1871. Photographs of Joseph William Parry's (died 1893) house in New Zealand c1888. Papers relating to Charles James Parry, senior 1824-1894: papers from his time as a commission agent 1844-1894 including notebooks, accounts, passport, letters; sketches c1839-1885; undated papers relating to inventions; estate papers 1860-1880 including inventories, accounts, agreements; family and personal papers 1856-c1897 including financial arrangements with Southern family, account books, bills, prescriptions, photographs.
Papers relating to Alice Parry born 1826: household accounts c1882-c1883; analyses of expenditure 1882-1884, miscellaneous financial papers 1896; journal of life at boarding school 1842; french exercise book 1844; correspondence 1842-1888. Sketches and school notes of Charles James Parry, junior c1882. Letters of David Henry Parry born 1866, c1890-1900. Miscellaneous photographs, late 19th century including those of Richard Cobden, Manchester Assize Courts, Manchester Town Hall, Eliana Twynam.
Related Material:For a description of the 'New Industrial School' on the corner of Byrom Street and St. John's Parade see Manchester Guardian 1 January 1851 Page 3 Col 3.
Place:Manchester/Manchester/Manchester/Lancashire/England
Title:
Parry family of Manchester and London, artists, papers and sketches
Date of work:
1817-1905
Reference number:
GB127.M367
Level of description:
Fonds
Custodial history:
Joseph Parry (1744-1826) , born in Liverpool, moved to Manchester in 1790, where he established himself as a portrait painter and artist of repute. His son David Henry (1793-1826) was also a portrait painter who moved to London in May 1826, but died there the same September. Another son, James (1805-1871), stayed in Manchester and was also an artist. David Henry's youngest son, Charles James (1824-1894) worked as a commission agent for the woollen industry, but was also an amateur landscape artist. He had two sons Charles James, a landscape and sea-scape painter, and David Henry, a painter of military subjects and writer. (see 'Dictionary of National Biography)
Source:
These papers were purchased in 1957 from Miss Gwen Parry of Overstrand, Norfolk, except for GB127.M367/2/3; GB127.M367/5/1/5, 10, 16, 18-22; GB127.M367/5/4/3-5, 7, 8; GB127.M367/5/5/1, 3-5; GB127.M367/5/6/1-3; GB127.M367/5/7/1-8; GB127.M367/6/1/1, 2; GB127.M367/6/2/1-3; GB127.M367/6/3; GB127.M367/6/5/1-6; GB127.M367/9/1/4, which were purchased in March 1980 from R W and C R Lamb, antiquarian booksellers of Lowestoft.
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Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7194110