"Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess escaping from Clerkenwell Prison," illustration for Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" by George Cruikshank (original) (raw)

Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess escaping from Clerkenwell Prison

George Cruikshank, 1792-1878

July 1839

Etching

11.8 x 9.4 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 2, Ch. 4, "Jack Sheppard's Escape from the New Prison," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 262.

• Illustration and facing text in the 1854 Routledge edition

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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