There's a recent scholarly book called Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies. On the front cover is a pair of full frontal male nude photos by the 19th Century American painter Thomas Eakins, apparently of Whitman himself. Sure looks like him, anyway. How often do we see an actual picure of a famous author - instead of merely his face and the clothes he happened to be wearing? One of the essays in the book says:

"In the late 1870s and early 1880s, while recovering from his first stroke, Whitman often shed his clothes and was very comfortable being naked around friends and acquaintances."

It is known that Eakins and Whitman were good friends. The front cover of the Penguin edition of Whitman's Complete Poems features two naked young men, a detail from Eakins' painting The Swimming Hole.

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