Jack Sheppard escaping from the Condemned Hold in Newgate

George Cruikshank

September 1839

Etching

12.3 x 9.7 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 2, for Ch. 10, "How Jack Sheppard got out of the Condemned Hold," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 281.

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