The Escape, No. 1

George Cruikshank

December 1839

Four Etchings each 5.0 cm square

11.1 x 10 cm

"Epoch the Third, 1724. The Prison Breaker," Vol. 3, for Ch. 17, "The Iron Bar," Ch. 18, "The Red Room," and Chapter 19, "The Chapel" in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 159.

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