"Jack Sheppard's escape from Willesden Cage," twelfth illustration for "Jack Sheppard" by George Cruikshank (original) (raw)

Jack Sheppard's escape from Willesden Cage

George Cruikshank

June 1839

Etching

11.7 x 9.8 cm

"Epoch the Second, 1715. Thames Darrell," Vol. 2, Ch. 18, "The Cage at Willesden," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 94.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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