Well-dressed women queue up to see James Maclaine, the Gentleman Highwayman in Newgate prison. Engraving, 1750.

A man approaches Maclean on the left with accusations of villainy for theft of the lace on his coat. A gentleman gives a bag of money to Maclean with the explanation 'Sr, these ladies for your polite treatment of them at Jubilee balls, masquerades & bagnios, have sent you this tryffle', Maclean bending in gratitude, replies 'Arra sweet dears, but save my life - and I will be always afterwards spending it in your service'. Queueing up on the left are a group of well dressed women, some weeping. A prison warder dressed in black promises 'Patience Ladies, I'll introduce ye all'. Maclean came from a respectable Irish clergy family, but in his early twenties he took to highway robbery between 1748 to 1750. He was caught on 27 July 1750 and was charged on 13 September creating a stir in polite circles. According to Horace Walpole, three thousand people visited him in Newgate on the Sunday after his trial. He was hanged at Tyburn on 3 October. This print is one of a large number produced about him at the time.