"This is not a First-class Cow."
Studies for a Large Decorative Design, 1874.
[CHAPTER V.]
DRAWING FOR "THE PICTORIAL WORLD," ETC.
Let us now glance at Caldecott's diary for 1874, which, with his letters to friends and the sketches which so often accompanied them, give an insight into the character of his work at this time. It is altogether an extraordinary record.
On the 14th of January, 1874, he is "working in the afternoons, sketching swans at Armstrong's." This was part of a large decorative design which he afterwards assisted in painting (see illustration on page [89]).