Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 souvenir paperweight and I love really it

and I love really it that way

This snake looks almost as if it is made of wood

I love the shape of ginger jars generally

and there are a handful of broken stitches around the edge of the lid--all as documented

as well as along the rim of the interior

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 souvenir paperweight and I love really itA 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 was made on a trip to Brittany in 1909, during which he made studies that provided material for many later paintings and engravings. And a really lovely drawing it is, of a sprig of a branch with a few furling leaves, which he executed in Taden (a commune in the Ctes