Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 stocking stuff This charming matching plate and

This charming matching plate and bowl set were made by Emily Stackman (now Emily Laszuk)

with a halo of solid black surrounding these women as if protecting and connecting them

Ethel Watts Mumford

I'm not sure

and the painting

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 stocking stuff This charming matching plate andA 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