Jack Sheppard [graphic]

Description

Title: Jack Sheppard [graphic]
Creator: Maddocks, W., printmaker
Contributor: Thornhill, James, Sir, 1675 or 1676-1734, artist.
Published / Created: [1819?]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of John ('Jack') Sheppard, three-quarter length in prison cell, seated to left with hands in chains and head turned to right; wearing plain coat and necktie, his hair cut short; after Thornhill. Sheppard was a notorious thief who was famous for his daring escapes from multiple prisons in London
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Mounted to 31 x 25 cm.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 11.5 cm, on sheet 18.2 x 12.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England 1819
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
London.
Subject (Name): Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724.
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Prisoners
Prisons
Subjects: Sheppard, Jack, 1702-1724
Criminals > England
Prisoners > England > London
Prisons > England > London
England > 1819

Access: Public
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