Turner's secret sketches
By: Ian Warrell
Contributors: Warrell, Ian
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781849760850
Subjects: Erotic art; Notebooks, sketchbooks; Female nude in art
Description: Up until a few years ago, biographies of both JMW Turner and John Ruskin had claimed that, in 1858, Ruskin burned bundles of erotic paintings and drawings by Turner in a fit of embarsassed Victorian censorship, to protect Turner's posthumous reputation. This title examines this little known aspect of the artist's oeuvre.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 142).