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Jack Sheppard[edit]
As an antidote to our fine article on the self-proclaimed "Thief-Taker General" and all-round bad egg, Jonathan Wild, here is another 18th-century thief, but a working-class hero this time. This is largely based on Lucy Moore's 2000 The Thieves' Opera. Suggestions for additional content or other sources are very welcome. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Haven't read the whole article yet, but The Newgate Calendar has a piece on him, plus a couple of (unfortunately poor) quality images that will be PD. Yomanganitalk 14:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'd not see the second before (perhaps from one of the Victorian novelisations?). I think the first is a poor-quality version of this sketch by Sir James Thornhill which is held by the NPG - or rather, a print after it - see the talk page, which refers to some other presumably-PD works which we could pilfer. I had an external link to a copy of a Newgate Calendar account, but it seems to be dead: there are others around.[1][2][3] It would be quite nice if someone could find a copy of "Sensations of Celebrity: Jack Sheppard and the Mass Audience" by Matthew Buckley, in Victorian Studies, Volume 44, Number 3, Spring 2002, pp. 423-463 and of Christopher Hibbert's "The road to Tyburn; the story of Jack Sheppard and the eighteenth-century London underworld." -- ALoan (Talk) 15:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, the first image does seem to be a terrible repro of the Thornhill pic. There's also this image Jack Shepperd gets drunk which I think is taken from one of the novels and this Gutenberg text Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences (snappy title, but it does have another PD image). Cruikshank's The Procession of Jack Sheppard from Newgate to Tyburn should be somewhere too, I'll keep looking. Yomanganitalk 15:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'd not see the second before (perhaps from one of the Victorian novelisations?). I think the first is a poor-quality version of this sketch by Sir James Thornhill which is held by the NPG - or rather, a print after it - see the talk page, which refers to some other presumably-PD works which we could pilfer. I had an external link to a copy of a Newgate Calendar account, but it seems to be dead: there are others around.[1][2][3] It would be quite nice if someone could find a copy of "Sensations of Celebrity: Jack Sheppard and the Mass Audience" by Matthew Buckley, in Victorian Studies, Volume 44, Number 3, Spring 2002, pp. 423-463 and of Christopher Hibbert's "The road to Tyburn; the story of Jack Sheppard and the eighteenth-century London underworld." -- ALoan (Talk) 15:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
