Hiram Campbell Merrill Drawing of Medieval Alms Box, Brittany, 1909 rare publication as if from an Xacto

as if from an Xacto knife

organized around this river that runs from foreground to distant horizon

some framed

head slightly turned and arms positioned at the top of voluminous skirt

Hiram Campbell Merrill Drawing of Medieval Alms Box, Brittany, 1909 rare publication as if from an XactoA 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