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Jack Sheppard (novel)

"The Last Scene", engraved by George Cruikshank in 1839 to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's serialised novel, Jack Sheppard. The caption reads: "Blueskin cutting down Jack Sheppard". In reality Blueskin was already dead by the time of Sheppard's execution.

Jack Sheppard is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in Bentley's Miscellany from 1839 to 1840, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. It is a historical romance and a Newgate novel based on the real life of the 18th-century criminal Jack Sheppard.[1]

  1. ^ Buckley, Matthew (2002). "Sensations of Celebrity". Victorian Studies. 44 (3): 423–463. doi:10.2979/VIC.2002.44.3.423. JSTOR 3830028.

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