page_title: Pierce Tempest
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Pierce Tempest / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: 'The squire of Alsatia', a dandy and rogue of restoration London, from Laroon's series 'The Cryes of London.'
context_page_description: Pierce Tempest was an English printseller, best known for the series Cryes of the City of London.
context_section_description: Establishing himself in The Strand as a book and print seller about 1680, Tempest issued some sets of plates of birds and beasts etched by Francis Place and John Griffier from drawings by Francis Barlow; and some mezzotint portraits by Place and others, mainly of royal personages. A translation of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (1709) was illustrated by Isaac Fuller the younger. Tempest also published William Lodge.
  The celebrated Cryes of the City of London, which he published in 1711, was a series of 74 portraits, from drawings by Marcellus Laroon the elder. It shows itinerant dealers and other remarkable characters who at that time frequented London streets. The plates were engraved by John Savage.
caption: The Squire of Alsatia, from the "Cryes of London" series (but 1813 re-engraving of 1688 original). The title comes from the play by Thomas Shadwell, but the drawing was based on a real person.[2] According to James Granger, Bully Dawson was sketched from life.[3]
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