"May I be cursed," muttered Jack Sheppard," if ever I try to be honest again."

George Cruikshank

March 1839

Etching

10.9 x 9.4 cm

"Epoch the Second, 1715. Thames Darrell," Chapter 5, "Hawk and Buzzard," in William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard. A Romance, facing page 209.

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