Distraction Collection

Paderewski, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Paderewski, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Polish pianist and composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) seated outdoors

Margaret Morris, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Margaret Morris, between c1915 and c1920. Shows Ziegfeld Follies dancer Margaret Morris (1888-1966)

Marc Johnson, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, 1995. Creator: Brian Foskett
Marc Johnson, North Sea Jazz Festival, Netherlands, 1995

Princes Gustaf Adolf - Sigvard & Bertil & Princess Ingrid of Sweden, between c1910 and c1915

White peacock, 1910. Creator: Hans Frank
White peacock, 1910

Portrait of the Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino, 1785. Creator: Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of the Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino, 1785

Laura Jean Libbey, White, NY, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
Laura Jean Libbey, White, NY, 1910

Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas, Mrs. Fred Beach at Hope Farm Fair, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas, Mrs. Fred Beach at Hope Farm Fair, 1912

Memories And Regrets, c1874. Creator: Alfred Stevens
Memories And Regrets, c1874. The woman in Stevens's painting appears in her undergarments, with her gown, parasol, and fan piled nearby

A Duchess (The Blue Dress), c1866. Creator: Alfred Stevens
A Duchess (The Blue Dress), c1866. A young woman, still wearing her cape and one glove, reflects on the contents of a hastily opened letter

Shiva enraged by Parvatis interruption of his meditation, early 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Shiva enraged by Parvatis interruption of his meditation, early 19th century

Peasant Woman Leaning on Wall, 1852-1866. Creator: Paul Gavarni
Peasant Woman Leaning on Wall, 1852-1866

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 9 (Maddi), 1830-1860. Creator: Unknown
Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 9 (Maddi), 1830-1860

Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 9 (Maddi), c1920-1940. Creator: Unknown
Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 9 (Maddi), c1920-1940. Collecting food in the forest is one of Maddi's daily activities during the family's exile

Politics in an Oyster House, 1848. Creator: Richard Caton Woodville
Politics in an Oyster House, 1848. After their meal, the younger of the two figures, bearded and wearing his top hat indoors, leans across the table

Cartoon from Puck, between 1880 and 1889. Creator: Frederick Burr Opper
Cartoon from Puck, between 1880 and 1889

Fashion Plate (Walking Dress), c1838. Creator: Unknown
Fashion Plate (Walking Dress), c1838. Probably from The Ladies Pocket Magazine

Goyu, The Thatched Hut of Yamamoto Kansuke, between circa 1845 and circa 1846. Creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Goyu, The Thatched Hut of Yamamoto Kansuke, between circa 1845 and circa 1846. From Fifty-three pairings along the Tokaido Road

Woman by a Lantern, 1810s. Creator: Kikugawa Eizan
Woman by a Lantern, 1810s. From Elegant Women Compared

Allons bon!...la v'là qui...verse du cirage dans mon chocolat!... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Allons bon!...la v'la qui...verse du cirage dans mon chocolat!... 1844. Allons bon!...la v'la qui au lieu de lait, verse du cirage dans mon chocolat!...satane roman va!...'

Baby Dragon, early 19th century. Creator: Kano Tomokazu
Baby Dragon, early 19th century

An Ascetic and a Woman Plucking a Thorn from her Foot (recto)... between 1600 and 1625 Creator: Unknown
An Ascetic and a Woman Plucking a Thorn from her Foot (recto), Folio from a Sukra Rambha Samvada (Story of Sukra and Rambha), between 1600 and 1625

Costumes de Différents Pays, Barbier Indien de Quito, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Barbier Indien de Quito, c1797

The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blätter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Creator: Sophie Reinhard
The Carbuncle, plate two from Zehn Blatter zu Hebels Alemannischen Gedichten, 1820. Ten leaves of Hebel's Alemannic poems

La voyez-vous la comète?... La-haut... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
La voyez-vous la comete?... La-haut... 19th century. The Comet of 1857 - Do you see the comet?

Une lecture entrainante, 1836. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une lecture entrainante, 1836. A catchy read

Amazone sous Louis XV. 1855. Augusta", 1855. Creator: Fritz von Dardel. Amazone sous Louis XV. 1855
Amazone sous Louis XV. 1855. Augusta", 1855

Portrait of an Oriental, (c18th century). Creator: Unknown
Portrait of an Oriental, (c18th century)

Bukharan. Kievan. Tatar, 1862. Creator: Karlis Huns
Bukharan. Kievan. Tatar, 1862. Sheet 45 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1

Male bust, 1910/1911. Creator: George Minne
Male bust, 1910/1911

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels. Creator: Master of Varlungo
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels. Gothic altarpiece by a follower of Cimabue. (Italian, Florentine, active ca. 1285-ca. 1310)

How to Turn Any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, June 11, 1808. June 11, 1808
How to Turn Any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, June 11, 1808

When the strange-looking blackfellows were close to him, Yoonecara released the bandicoot, 1923. The adventurous journey of Yoonecara the headman; Yoonecara, head of the Kamilaroi tribe

Dressing for the Masquerade. Laetitia Flies from Reflection to Public Entertainments, 1789. Artist: John Raphael Smith
Dressing for the Masquerade. Laetitia Flies from Reflection to Public Entertainments, 1789. After George Morland (1762-1804). From The Connoisseur Vol. LXXV. [The Connoisseur, London, 1926]

Countess Cowper, c1865-1890Artist: John Hayter
Countess Cowper, c1865-1890

Tom and Jerry, catching Kate and Sue on the fly, having their fortunes told, 19th century. Kate and Sue having their fortunes read in the cards (Cartomancy) by an old woman

Love and the Vices Disarm Judgement, late 17th or early 18th century. Artist: Paolo de Matteis
Love and the Vices Disarm Judgement, late 17th or early 18th century. Found in the collection of the State A Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

A visit to a fortune teller, early 19th century. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
A visit to a fortune teller, early 19th century. Kate and Sue having their fortunes read in the cards (Cartomancy) by an old woman

The Cut Direct, 1888. Artist: Joseph Swain
The Cut Direct, 1888. The Democrat President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was fighting for re-election. The young lady on the right offering the Fisheries Treaty will not

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