Keywords: Indian - A Princely Voyeur - Walters W867.jpg This is a typical genre scene of a peeping-Tom prince watching a bevy of beauties bathing in a public place in this case the bottom of a narrow stream where a pool has formed with blooming lotuses and three ducks that look like toys The startled ladies in various states of undress have just seen the voyeur on his horse behind a row of trees The elderly duenna quickly tries to shield the princess from his gaze by improvising a screen with part of her white dress The bullock cart that brought the ladies stands behind the foliage on the upper right ca 1775 pigments paper cm 31 1 23 2 accession number W 867 7567 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2001 place of origin Lucknow Uttar Pradesh India Walters Art Museum license 2D Paintings of India in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Peeping Tom character Hindu art in the Walters Art Museum 18th-century watercolor paintings from India Rivers of India in art Erotic art of India |