Isabella Louisa Parry b. c.1801

Also known as Lady Parry, Isabella Louisa Stanley
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Isabella Louisa Parry was a sketcher and collector. She arrived in Sydney with her husband in 1829. It appears that Parry, in consultation with her husband, designed and drew the plan of the Agricultural Company's chapel of St John at nearby Stroud. She also had a collection of insects and butterflies which she intended to send back home to England from Port Stephens, but mice ate them all.

Citations

  • Campbell, J. (1923), 'The first decade of the Australian Agricultural Company 1824 to 1834’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 9.

  • Champion, B. (1949), Newcastle and Hunter District Historical Society Journal, vol. 3.

  • McDaniell, I. (1926), 'Souvenir of Stroud’, Newcastle.

  • Parry, A. (1962), 'Parry of the Arctic’, London.

  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, ms Ap4.

  • 'Parry Papers’, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870