Sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors

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Two men hidden behind a fence are watching a young woman bathing; cottages in the background. Coloured lithograph by L. Noël after E. Lepoittevin, 1847.

An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.

A male and female frog courting, watched by a frog voyeur. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing by F(?). Lord.

A woman consulting an official weeps and then faints, prompting the official to take her privately into his back office. Line process print by SGAP after Albert Guillaume, 1893.

Five women bathing while a man peeps from behind a tree. Line engraving.

A young woman dressed as a man goes to a stream to bathe, and is seen by three men as she reveals her breast and her long hair. Stipple engraving by C. Knight, 1800, after Hoare.

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A male and female frog courting, watched by a frog voyeur. Photograph by J.P. Soule, 1876, after a drawing by F(?). Lord.

A woman consulting an official weeps and then faints, prompting the official to take her privately into his back office. Line process print by SGAP after Albert Guillaume, 1893.

A young woman dressed as a man goes to a stream to bathe, and is seen by three men as she reveals her breast and her long hair. Stipple engraving by C. Knight, 1800, after Hoare.

Two men hidden behind a fence are watching a young woman bathing; cottages in the background. Coloured lithograph by L. Noël after E. Lepoittevin, 1847.

An embarrassed female patient is caught undressed by a leering medical assistant. Colourprocess print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.