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Noise pollution

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Pollution

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Images about Noise pollution

4 images from works
  • A man who is trying to read being disturbed by a family in conversation. Wood engraving by Swain after F. Barnard.
  • A young man is shouting at a man playing the trombone at 2.30 in the morning, for waking him and his family up during the night. Engraving by Robert Graves, 1834, after R.W. Buss.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1741.
  • The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.

Works from the collections

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    A man who is trying to read being disturbed by a family in conversation. Wood engraving by Swain after F. Barnard.

    Fred Barnard | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 27072i
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    A young man is shouting at a man playing the trombone at 2.30 in the morning, for waking him and his family up during the night. Engraving by Robert Graves, 1834, after R.W. Buss.

    Robert William Buss | Date: June 2 1834 | Reference: 34124i
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    The enraged musician: a street crowd with a ballad singer is creating such a noise that the musician in the window has to put his hands over his ears. Engraving by J. June after W. Hogarth.

    William Hogarth | Reference: 34120i
    • Books

    Why noise matters : a worldwide perspective on the problems, policies and solutions / John Stewart with Arline Bronzaft, Francis McManus, Nigel Rodgers and Val Wheedon.

    Stewart, John, 1949- | Date: 2011
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    Making noise : from Babel to the big bang & beyond / Hillel Schwartz.

    Hillel Schwartz | Date: [2011], ©2011
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