Distraction posters & prints

Woman Office Worker on the Phone Distracted by Noise. Anonymous

Lady Godina's Rout or Peeping Tom Spying Out Pope Joan Anonymous

A young woman distracts a soldier while one of her children robs him Carl Gustav Klingstedt

Refuse To Be Sidetracked Motivational Poster Anonymous

A Sunday ordinary at Highgate Anonymous

Women Distracting a Child whose Kite is caught in a Tree, c. 1800 Katsushika Hokusai

The Cut Direct Joseph Swain

Siegfried's death Arthur Rackham

Scene from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale, The Snow Queen Anonymous

The Violin Player Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin

1970s Man In Casual Blue Stripe Seersucker Pants Taking Mail Anonymous

The Embleme of England's Distractions Anonymous

Rigolette Trying to Distract herself during Germain's Absence, 1844 Joseph Desire Court

The Emblem of England's Distractions, 1658 English School

The sleeping congregation William Hogarth

When the strange-looking blackfellows were close to him, Yoonecara released the bandicoot Raymond Wenban

Love's Distraction, 1880 Evariste Carpentier

Crosslights, 1913 William Sergeant Kendall

All Talk and No Work, 1855-56 Francis William Edmonds

The Diversion Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau

A scene from the Commedia dell'Arte Franco-Flemish School

Preparing for Examinations, 1864 Ilya Efimovich Repin

A young woman in classical dress, holding a red rose Georges Bellanger

Portrait of a Woman, 1897 Paul Prosper Tillier

The Soothsayer, 1986 James Reeve

Portrait of a woman in traditional Filipino costume Filipino School

Countess Cowper John Hayter

James Macpherson, 1825 English School

Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya, Russian actress, c1900 Karl Karlovich Bulla

Shiva enraged by Parvati's interruption of his meditation, early 19th century Unknown

The hungry messenger, 1890 George Adolphus Storey

The Good Bourgeois, plate 14: What the bourgeois consider a distraction, 1846 Honoré Daumier

Study for the Portrait of Pierre Puget in the Hemicycle at the Ecole des Beaux Arts Hippolyte Delaroche

1930s Teenage Girl Thinking Sitting At Table Doing Homework Anonymous

Study Anonymous

Waiting, 1885 Clement Rollins Grant