Jack Sheppard's irons knocked off in the Stone Hall at Newgate

George Cruikshank

February 1840

Etching

11.3 x 9.8 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 3, for Ch. 31, "The Procession to Tyburn," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 291.

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