Jack Rann alias 'Sixteen String Jack' executed at Tyburn November 30th 1774

Copper-engraved portrait of the notorious Highway robber John Rann alias 'Sixteen String Jack.' After several unsucessful convictions, due to lack of evidence, Rann was finally found guility of the highway robbery of Dr Bell, near Ealing and the theft of his watch and cash on 26th September 1774. The print that refers to him as 'Jack' Ran depicts the highwayman in prison drinking a glass of wine.

At his trial Rann, dressed in a new suit of pea-green clothes, ruffled shirt and a hat bound with silver strings; he wore a ruffled shirt. Confident of being acquitted, yet again, he had ordered a genteel supper to be provided for the entertainment of his particular friends and associates on the joyful occasion of being set freed. Having been found guilty he was executed at Tyburn on November 30th 1774.