"Cleopatra."
[CHAPTER XI.]
"BRETON FOLK," ETC.
For Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson, the poet, Caldecott made in the years 1877-8, twelve drawings to illustrate Bramble Rise, A Winter Phantasy, My Neighbour Rose, and other verses. These illustrations, most delicately drawn in pen and ink, have not yet been published. One was used in 1881 in a privately printed edition of the London Lyrics, and three in 1883, in a little volume of the Lyrics printed by the "Book Fellows Club" in New York. Caldecott afterwards made four illustrations for Mrs. Locker-Lampson's child's book, What the Blackbird Said, and two years afterwards, in 1882, an illustration to her Greystoke Hall. These two books are published by Messrs. Routledge.
In 1878 he exhibited his picture of "The Three Huntsmen" riding home in evening light. It was hung rather high in Gallery VII. at the Royal Academy Exhibition, and technically could hardly be pronounced a success; but it was a distinct advance on previous exhibited work, and drew the serious attention of critics to Caldecott as a painter. The sketch appeared in an article on the Academy in L'Art, vol. xx. p. 211. Of this oil painting, Mr. Mundella, the late President of the Board of Trade writes:—