Man with Cigar and White Horse in Backyard Standoff, Old Real Photo Postcard cloth arms Really an excellent object I

Really an excellent object I think

Hiram Campbell Merrill  (1866-1958) was a Boston-born painter and engraver

painterly application

but I especially love the roosters

Man with Cigar and White Horse in Backyard Standoff, Old Real Photo Postcard cloth arms Really an excellent object II've been looking a fair amount at real photo postcards lately, which is fun but also a lot of scrolling through a lot that are not at all interesting, at least to me! Often the ones I like are not very good photographs at all, technically at least on this the horse is overexposed and the man very shadowed but what a great backyard stand off between the two, which one could read as something of a battle between good and evil! If you look closely you