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Noise

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  • A drunken bacchanalian gathering with women and a satyr trying to waken two sleeping men. Etching by G. de Lairesse after himself.
  • A boy sitting on a fence, scaring away crows with a pair of clappers. Coloured line block after W. Bromley.
  • A woman accompanies herself on the lute as she sings, the man next to her is grimacing as he listens. Coloured etching.
  • A skimmington or charivari: people make noise and are violent in the street as a form of rough justice exercised by women against men; on the right Hudibras enters on horseback, and is hit in the eye by a thrown egg. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • As a woman plays the piano, two string-players, one with a violin and the other with a cello, express dissatisfaction. Etching by J. Gillray, 1800, after B. North.
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    A boy sitting on a fence, scaring away crows with a pair of clappers. Coloured line block after W. Bromley.

    Bromley, William, III, active 1835-1888. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 485355i
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    Noise.

    Taylor, Rupert, 1946- | Date: 1970
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    Noise in factories / by A.G. Aldersey-Williams.

    Building Research Station (Great Britain) | Date: 1960
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    Urban stress : experiments on noise and social stressors / David C. Glass, Jerome E. Singer.

    Glass, David C. | Date: 1972
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    Noise & sound reflections / James Lawless.

    Lawless, James | Date: [2015]
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