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• Author/Creator:Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, printmaker.
  
• Title:The cryes of the city of London : drawne after life in 74 copper plates = Les cris de la ville de Londres : dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno p[er] Londra : fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit.
  
• Published/Created:London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, 1733.
  
• Physical Description:74 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 25 cm. mounted & bound to 31 cm.
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Quarto 75 L328 733
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Plates 33, 67, 72 are wanting; duplicates of plates 26, 23, 68, laid in.
    Unidentified manuscript notes and numbers (in another hand) on versos of many of the hinged plates, giving detailed histories of the people depicted.
    A made-up copy, formerly owned by Sir William Augustus Fraser and by C.W. Dyson Perrins. Some of the prints may have belonged to J. Gulston. Each plate bears Fraser's stamp.
    
  • Provenance:H.W. Edwards; February 1962.
    Gulston sale, 1786, p. 30, lot 38? Fraser sale, Christie, Manson & Woods 4 December 1900. C.W. Dyson Perrins slae, lot 110, Sotheby's 11 June 1959.
    
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• Notes:All engraved. Includes two t.-p.
  Place of publication follows publisher's address.
  Date altered in plate from 1711 to 1733.
  Plates, including t.p., are signed: M. Lauron delin: P. Tempest exc. ML form a monogram.
  Probably engraved by John Savage (cf. pl. 71) though sometimes the engraving is attributed to Tempest or to Laroon.
  First ed. 1688 (50 pl.); 2d ed. 1711 (74 pl.)
  Title-pages and captions in English, French, and Italian; the second t.-p. is not dated.
  
• Variant and related titles:Cries of the city of London drawn after the life
  Cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature
  Arti communi che uanno per Londra fatte dal naturale
  Tempests cryes of London.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Cries--England--London--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
  Peddlers--England--London--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
  Street vendors.
  London (England)--Social life and customs--17th century--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Gulston, Joseph, 1745-1786--Ownership.
  Fraser, William, Sir, 1826-1898--Bookplate.
  Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958--Bookplate.
  
• Genre/Form:Cries.
  Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
  Engravings--England--18th century.
  
• Also listed under:Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702, artist.