Title: Turner's secret sketches
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.
Subjects: Erotic art, Notebooks, sketchbooks, Female nude in art, Turner, j. m. w. (joseph mallord william), 1775-1851, Women in art, Nude in art
People: J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851)