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Show ARTIST NOT FOND OF LADOR Turner Pasted on a Picture the Print of a Vase He Wanted. On one of Mr. Edward Moran's visits vis-its to London he made a careful study of Turner. They Btopped hi front of "Chllda Harold's Pilgrimage," ond .Mr. Mornn after examining the canvas closely made the startling assertion that the vnso to tho right was not a part ol the picture, hut was pasted on It Mr. Warnhnm laughed the Idea tc Bcorn and said It was absurd. Mr Mornn persisted thn' he was right and wagered a dinner and a bottle of wine that ho could prove It-If ho were given the opportunity. The wngor was .icccpted. The pic ture was taken down, the rlass wa removed, tind, to the astonishment ol the keeper, Mr. Mornn rnlsed the edge of ihe paper, over which, surely enough, tho vnso had boon painted. Evidently, to save himself the trou ble of drawing the object Turner had cut tho aso out of som print, skill full) hiding the point of Junctuie. New York Herald. |