The Procession of Jack Sheppard from Newgate to Tyburn

Three stacked wood-engraved vignettes chart the condemned highwayman Jack Sheppard's last journey: soldiers escorting a cart from Newgate Prison; a street brawl on Holborn Hill where a figure identified as Blueskin attempts a rescue amid a press of soldiers, crowds, and smoke; and Sheppard standing in the cart outside a tavern, drinking the traditional St Giles's Bowl before a cheering mob. Cruikshank packs each panel with class-coded figures—fine-hatted magistrates above, ragged Londoners below—rendered in dense cross-hatched line descended directly from Hogarth's narrative print sequences. This sequential, captioned, multi-panel format, telling one continuous story across stacked images, is precisely the visual grammar that migrated from illustrated fiction into newspaper comic strips and, eventually, the comic book page.