American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 167
Merrill. and that showing an Eastern fanatic on the battlefield: One of that saintly, murderous brood, To carnage and the Koran given,Who think through unbelievers blood Lies their directest path to heaven, —One who will pause and kneel unshod In the warm blood his hand hath pourd,To mutter oer… … A Queer Puppy. Drawn by Merrill. The picture on this page (from The Red Mountain of Alaska ) shows a direction of Merrillstalent in which he is very strong, and that is, in drawing a boy. Boys he seems to thoroughly knowand appreciate, and he must have studied them somewhat as did Charles Dudley…
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