Jack Sheppard: Jack Sheppard exhibits a vindictive character
The etching, entitled 'Jack Sheppard exhibits a vindictive character', shows Jack brandishing a knife as he is restrained by his companions.
Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth which was published in serial form in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839-1840 with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is derived from a true-life story of an eighteenth-century criminal who escaped from prison four times before being caught and hanged.
