Abel Beechcroft discovering the body of the Miser in the cellar

George Cruikshank

September 1842

Steel-engraving

12.3 cm high by 9.9 cm wide, framed

Eighteenth illustration for the volume edition of William Harrison Ainsworth's The Miser's Daughter: A Tale, Book Three, Chapter 12, facing page 269 (second plate for the ninth instalment, September 1842, in Ainsworth's Magazine), encompassing Book III, Chapters 6-10.

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