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

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Lewis Walpole Library > 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

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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
Alternative Title: 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
Creator: Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717, printmaker
Contributor: Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702, artist.
Published / Created: 1733.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Description: All engraved. Includes two t.-p.
Title-pages and captions in English, French, and Italian; the second t.-p. is not dated.
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.)
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: 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. H.W. Edwards; February 1962.
Extent: 74 leaves of plates : 25 cm. mounted & bound to 31 cm.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 75 L328 733

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Cries
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Engravings England 18th century
Material: chiefly ill. ;
Subject (Geographic): England
London
London (England)
Subject (Topic): Cries
Peddlers
Social life and customs
Street vendors
Subjects: Cries > England > London > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Peddlers > England > London > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
London (England) > Social life and customs > 17th century > Pictorial works > Early works to 1800
Street vendors
18th century
England > 18th century
Gulston, Joseph, 1745-1786 > Ownership
Fraser, William, Sir, 1826-1898 > Bookplate
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Bookplate

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 1774122
Object ID (OID): 16034814