Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Phil and Gail Sellers and how its body

and how its body

The only actual flaws I have found are two tiny chips on the lips of two of the bowls (one on each)--very minor

it measures 6 1/4" tall x 4 1/4" across at widest

But I am not quite sure what animal it is meant to represent exactly

and is adhered to a paper backing (on which text is written) which measures 5 1/4” x 7 1/4”

Botanical Pencil Drawing by Hiram Campbell Merrill, 1909 Phil and Gail Sellers and how its bodyA 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