"Jonathan Wild seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church-yard," illustration for Ainsworth's "Jack Sheppard" by George Cruikshank (original) (raw)

Jonathan Wild seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave in Willesden Church-yard

George Cruikshank

January 1840

Etching

11.8 x 9.9 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 3, for Ch. 26, "How Jack Sheppard attended his Mother's Funeral," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 241.

Scanned image and text byPhilip V. Allingham.

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