Jack Sheppard: The procession of Jack Sheppard from Newgate to Tyburn
This etching shows the anti-hero on his way to Tyburn to be hanged.
Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth which was published in serial form in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839-40 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.
