Hiram Campbell Merrill Drawing of Medieval Alms Box, Brittany, 1909 rare publication or carved wooden animal

or carved wooden animal

Salish weavers are well known for their coiled baskets

as if from an Xacto knife

some framed

winding its way up and around the R from its cross-hatched pot below would be the perfect thing to hang in the room of a child with a first name starting with "R

Hiram Campbell Merrill Drawing of Medieval Alms Box, Brittany, 1909 rare publication or carved wooden animalA listed artist, Hiram Campbell Merrill (1866 1958) was a Boston born painter and engraver, who in addition to pursuing his own art worked for Harpers magazine in New York. This drawing, while undated, I know was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And it is in fact two drawings, one glued to the corner of the other, comprising two views of an old alms box in