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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.

Two nurses whispering and causing a nuisance to patients. Colour lithograph after Fougasse, 1958.

Noise.

Noise pollution : the unquiet crisis / Clifford R. Bragdon.

Noise, hearing and deafness / Philip H. Beales.

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Psychological Effects of Noise : held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, September, 1967 / edited by W. Taylor.

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A boy sitting on a fence, scaring away crows with a pair of clappers. Coloured line block after W. Bromley.

Noise.

Noise pollution : the unquiet crisis / Clifford R. Bragdon.

Noise, hearing and deafness / Philip H. Beales.

Proceedings of the Symposium on the Psychological Effects of Noise : held at the University of Wales, Cardiff, September, 1967 / edited by W. Taylor.