AT GUINGAMP, BRITTANY.
Facsimile of Model in Terra Cotta, 1874.

To M. H.—Christmas, 1874.

On the 19th of November and following days Caldecott was "working at Dalou's on a cat crouching for a spring." He had a skeleton of a cat, a dead cat, and a live cat to work from. This model in clay was finished on the 8th December, 1874.