Pierce Tempest

It is said that he was a pupil and assistant of Wenceslaus Hollar, and some of the prints which bear his name as the publisher have been assumed to be his own work; but there is no actual evidence that he ever practised engraving.

There is a mezzotint portrait of him by Place, after G. Heemskerk, with the motto "Cavete vobis principes", and the figure of a nonconformist minister in the Cryes is said to represent him.

[1] 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.

[4] 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.

Pierce Tempest.
The Squire of Alsatia , from the "Cryes of London" series (but 1813 re-engraving of 1688 original). The title comes from the 1688 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 ]