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Lot Essay
Claude Blair records only one other target of this type, that in the Scott Collection in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove (inv. no. 39-55), but a third example, in the collection of the Earl of Londesborough, was sold at Christie's, 4 July 1888, lot 125: 'Highland Target, the brass (sic) in the centre unscrews, and shows the date 1714'. A fourth (undated) example (at Duff House, Banff) is discussed by A.V.B. Norman in 'A Highland Target (Targaid) of about 1715 at Duff House, Banffshire,' J.A.A.S., vol. XV, No. 7 (March 1998), pp. 418-425
18th century references to such targets include those by John Campbell in his Description of the Highlands, published in London in 1752, and by Henry Fletcher in a letter of 21 January 1716 to his brother Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ('Letters of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his family, 1715-1716', I.J. Murray (ed), Scottish History Society Miscellany, 1965, pp. 153-4)
18th century references to such targets include those by John Campbell in his Description of the Highlands, published in London in 1752, and by Henry Fletcher in a letter of 21 January 1716 to his brother Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun ('Letters of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun and his family, 1715-1716', I.J. Murray (ed), Scottish History Society Miscellany, 1965, pp. 153-4)