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Ruskin never escaped his prudish ways or gave any indication of desiring to. After the death of J. M. W. Turner, in 1851, Ruskin was given the job of going through the works left to the nation by the great artist and found several watercolors of a cheerfully erotic nature. Horrified, Ruskin decided that they could only have been drawn under a certain condition of insanity, and for the good of the nation destroyed almost all of them, robbing posterity of several priceless works.

Bill Bryson

Ruskin never escaped his prudish ways or gave any indication of desiring to. After the death of J. M. W. Turner, in 1851, Ruskin was given the job of going through the works left to the nation by the great artist and found several watercolors of a cheerfully erotic nature. Horrified, Ruskin decided that they could only have been drawn under a certain condition of insanity, and for the good of the nation destroyed almost all of them, robbing posterity of several priceless works.

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