Jack Sheppard visits his Mother in Bedlam

George Cruikshank

August 1839

Etching

11.7 x 9.8 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 2, for Ch. 8, "Old Bedlam," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 242.

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