"Shows his Terra Cottas."
In June 1875, he shows the bas-relief of "A Boar Hunt," and some small groups in terra cotta, to his friends.[8]
Before the favourable verdict of the press was pronounced on Old Christmas, Caldecott was commissioned to illustrate a second volume; and, in May 1875, he was already at work making studies and drawings for Bracebridge Hall, which did not appear until the end of 1876.
About this time the first number of Academy Notes was published, and in a postscript to a letter to the writer (of too private a nature to be printed) Caldecott pictures its "first appearance in a family circle."
The First Year of Academy Notes.
In June 1875, Caldecott had "three drawings in sepia, badly hung, in the 'black and white' exhibition at the Dudley Gallery."
On the 4th of August he was "making designs for pelican picture;" and afterwards studying this subject at the Zoological Gardens. Two pictures of pelicans were eventually painted; the second, in the possession of Mr. W. Phipson Beale, is sketched below.