Forms part of a collection of 20 drawings by Cruikshank to illustrate William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, The miser's daughter.
Drawing for an etched illustration for The miser's daughter, first published in book III, chapter 16, of Ainsworth's novel as it originally appeared as a serial publication in Ainsworth's Magazine, Volume II, 1842.
Drawing is signed by the artist and inscribed with a title below image in pen and brown ink and numbered "15" at head of sheet in pencil; annotated in graphite, "a letter to the Prince", with a small sketch, in margin at right; on verso of mount: Vol. III, Frontispiece.
Drawing shows Cordwell Firebras, dropping the secret packet to Randulph as he dies, soldiers firing upon him and the other Jacobites, Randulph in the boat below, supporting the wounded Sir Norfolk, Jacob manning the pole, conspirators fleeing the burning water-mill beyond and Westminster Abbey in the distance, with a small graphite sketch of the figure of the bargeman with his pole, in the margin at right.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.