The horse of Dick Turpin, Black Bess, dies of exhaustion after Turpin tries to escape from his pursuers. Lithograph by W. Clerk, 1839.

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An episode in the novel Rookwood: a romance by W. H. Ainsworth, London 1834, chapter XLII

London (Water Lane, Fleet St) : F. Glover, [1839] (102 High Holborn : W. Clark, lith)

1 print : lithograph ; image 12 x 20 cm

Death of Black Bess.

Wellcome Collection 34573i

One in a set of "six splendid lithographic drawings, Dick Turpin's famous ride to York", advertised in The fly, 7 September 1839, p. 144

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