“THE SLEEPING VENUS”
A LEGALLY INDECENT PICTURE. Press Association. AUCKLAND, Juno 18. Mr Gotten, S.M., gave his reserved decision to-dajr on the charge against ■Spensloy Clarkson of exhibiting in public an indecent picture- It is entitled “The Sleeping Venus,” and is a coloured print of a celebrated picture. The magistrate held that the picture might bo a very beautiful work of art, and quite proper in its jdacc, but when exhibited in a shop window it would have a mischievous tendency. It was therefore, legally indecent. Defendant was fined £<) and costs. The fine was increased to £6 to enable defendant to appeal. ’
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 3
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