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  • A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.
  • A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
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    A musician playing the clarinet outside a town-house is given threepence by a footman and asked to move on, but the musician asks for more money. Steel engraving after R. Seymour.

    Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836. | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 32005i
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    The age of noise in Britain : hearing modernity / James G. Mansell.

    Mansell, James G. | Date: [2017]
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    A noisy tenant and three of his friends, having stayed up singing until the early hours of the morning, go to the house of an elderly neighbour and disturb his sleep to ask him for glass of water and the loan of a shilling for a cab. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.

    Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. | Date: [1839] | Reference: 35955i
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