The Miser's Daughter: 9/20,The Jacobite Club pursued by the Guard

This print shows the hero of the novel comes to London and has an active social life attending parties. At one of them a character called Cordwell Firebras discusses Jacobite plots and the group has to make a speedy exit before being arrested, as shown in the illustration.

The Miser's Daughter is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth published in 1842.Set in the eighteenth century it is a historical romance which tells the story of Randulph Crew's attempts to marry the daughter of a miser called Scarve. It was illustrated by the prolific caricature artist George Cruikshank ( 1792-1878). Intertwined with the main plot are various strands which deal with aspects of London society at that time, for instance settlement of estates and wills.