About This Artwork

Walter Allan
Scottish, Stirling, active 1700-1761

Basket-Hilt Backsword (Claymore), c. 1750

Steel, iron, copper, leather, felt, fiber weave, wood, fish skin
L. 101.5 cm (39 7/8 in.)
Blade L. 87 cm (34 1/4 in.)
Wt. 2 lb. 14 oz.
Hilt, lower part: W.A.S. - stamped for Walter Allan of Stirling.
George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2143

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Walter Karchieski, "Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown, and Company, 1995), p. 94 (ill.)