Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co to the chickens pecking away

to the chickens pecking away on the green next to the train tracks

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Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Griebel Instrument co to the chickens pecking awayA 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