Etudes prises dans le bas Peuple où les Cris de Paris premiere (-Cinquieme) Suitte
RA Collection: Book
Record number
03/2180
Variant Title
Cris de Paris
Imprint
Se Vendent à Paris,: chez Fessard, rue St. Denis au Grand St. Louis chez un Miroitier pres le Sep:, A Paris: Chés Joullain Quay de la Megisserie à la Ville de Rome.
Physical Description
12, 12, 12, 12, [12] pl. (the first plate in each group serving as the title-plate for that suite); 334 mm.
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as designed by Bouchardon, except plate [10] of the fifth suite, which is not signed by a draughtsman; eleven are signed as both designed and drawn by him (Suites 3:6; 4:1-4, 7-12). All plates are signed as etched by 'C' or 'C.S.' ('C.S.' or 'C. Sculp.'), except the title-plates of suites 3-5, which are signed respectively as 'Gravé a l'Eau forte par C. et retouché par Et. Fessard', 'Gravé a l'eau forte par C. Et terminé au burin par Et. Fessard' and 'Gravé à l'eau-forte par C.S. et terminé au burin par Et. Fessard'.
Each plate carries at the foot the publisher's imprint, 'A Paris Chés Joullain', except the title plate of the fifth suite, in which the imprint of Joullain is engraved instead of that of Fessard within the plate itself.
References
D. Millar, Street criers and itinerant tradesmen in European prints (1970); K. T. Parker, 'Bouchardon's Cries of Paris' in Old Master Drgs, v/19 (1930), p.45-8.
Summary Note
The five parts were published in 1737, 1737, 1738, 1742 and 1746.
There is no letter-press text.
Each plate (including the title plates) is captioned, and shows one of the street criers of Paris.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
In this set the title-plate of the third suite has been bound in immediately after that of the second suite.
Binding Note
19th-century red morocco; gilt-tooled upper and lower covers; gilt decoration on spine; spine lettered 'Cris de Paris' and 'R.A. 1737-8'.
Subject
Street vendors - Cries - Peddlers and peddling - Occupations - Costume - Dress - France - Paris - History - 18th century
Drawings - France - 18th century
Pictorial works - France - 18th century