Social distraction posters & prints

La Morgue, largest morgue in Paris, 1830-40 School French

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

Crosslights, 1913 William Sergeant Kendall

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

Refuse To Be Sidetracked Motivational Poster Anonymous

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

The Violin Player Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin

The Cut Direct Joseph Swain

Anita William Orpen

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

Siegfried's death Arthur Rackham

The hungry messenger, 1890 George Adolphus Storey

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

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

A Harlot's Progress, Plate II, 1732 William Hogarth

Love's Distraction, 1880 Evariste Carpentier

And Smuggled Across to Jeddah in a Slave Dhow Anonymous

And Sold Her at a Public Market in the Soudan Anonymous

Paterson, New Jersey - Textiles. Living room and 78 year-old silk worker (now retired on $18 a month pension). Lives... Lewis Hine

And Making a Night Raid, He Carried Her Off with Other Women Anonymous

But a Slave-Hunter Discovered Her Village Anonymous

The Tempter Joseph Swain

She Lived by an Abyssinian River Anonymous

Harlot's Progres William Hogarth

The Emblem of England's Distractions, 1658 English School

King Penguins Socializing Anonymous

Where Size Became the Property of a Turkish Bey Anonymous

She Was Then Taken Across the Desert to the Red Sea Anonymous

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

Mammon's Rents! Joseph Swain

Portrait of Emile Bauman; Portrait d'Emile Bauman, 1927 Emile Bernard

Sitting Dog Anonymous

Day Dream Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Vision of St Augustine Vittore Carpaccio

The Man who Cuts Wood and Meat with the Same Knife Pieter the Younger Brueghel

The Artist's Sister at a Window, 1869 Berthe Morisot