"Audacity of Jack Sheppard," illustration for Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" by George Cruikshank (original) (raw)

Audacity of Jack Sheppard

George Cruikshank

August 1839

Etching

11.9 x 9.6 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 2, for Ch. 7, "Jack Sheppard Warns Thames Darrell," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, but facing page 195.

• Illustration and facing text in the 1854 Routledge edition

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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