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The Target . . . has . . . never been exhibited: both this and ‘The Pedlar’ were a few months ago ip the possession of Mr. Cox, of Pall Mall and Cornhill, who permitted us to engrave them. The owner of the wandering shooting-gallery is a capital study, as, pipe in hand, he points the young marksman to the bull’s-eye; yet he need not fear that his bag of nuts will be exhausted, even should the whole group of juvenile rustics who have gathered round the stall as competitors or spectators—and they are all very prettily and picturesquely placed on the canvas—try their skill at the target, which most of them seem very Willing to do.

Bibliography

Dafforne, James. "British Artists, Their Style and Character: John Burr," Art Journal (1869): 337-39.

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