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Show IfABT ART WORK. ' ' ' A Charaaal lketb Worth Oua Hundred DaUara Drawn lu Tn tllautaa. Improvisation .ns an. art liubiially av soolated .with music, but artists ujbo can "dash oft" a picture when tho spirit moves them; and thu spirit seems to have been very vigorously at work on Mr.T. U. llardy.whoboseascapeaare so widely renowned, on a certain festive fes-tive evening not long ago, cays the London Telegram. There wm stretched before him, so It Is credibly reported, a sheet of paper measuring about three feet by four on an taint, and upon this canvas he wah Invited to execute a charcoal char-coal drawing, lu ton mlputes. The subject sub-ject ohosen by him was "The Fool" below Loudon bridge, with tho usual accessaries ot.tbo tower looming in the background and barges and steamers coming up. the river on the floodtlda. Ho deftly dld.the artist's baud trace the design already .recorded In his brain that, the whole picture was fin-(shod fin-(shod wlthlu the very short space of time sJ ready mentioned. "Aerial and ware effects," we read, "were obtained by rapid rubbing wth tho band or a cloth." It might naturally be expected that a drawing done under such trying circumstances, would be somewhat ''skotchy,"jandnculQubt the details In It rWro. rsthsr.sjigirestf A than'cpreful-ly than'cpreful-ly filled InLbot tbe.rc,sult va very .far Indeed from btJofa mere: smudgy ,and Xhp. eompsnjr.oi brother ftrUfly,llierury men and' actor before, yvhqui ia feut was exhibited. ' were loud in .thclr praise. Their appreolsttou Indeed was shown In too root practical of nil possible pos-sible ways, lor Mi-; Hardy's chArcoal sketch; which- had : taken Mm 'only a sixth partjof 'an h'our ta complete, at '6nSc chonged'Tiorlds fortbe'prlee of twenty yuloffsst' i.ir-flf . |