# A Peep at the Train [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SWOBODA, Rudolph Der G.]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 91 x 56 cm ## Commentary This composition by the Orientalist painter Swoboda shows a group of children in the company of an old man, positioned by the barrier near a railway line. A village is in the background. The foreground of the picture is dominated by the strong pool of shadow cast by the figures and the barrier. This painting - like Swoboda's other paintings of Indian subjects - can be compared with contemporary late nineteenth-century photographs of Indians. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()