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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 W. Hogarth, 1741.
  • Crowds of people are thronging the streets of Westminster, with traders hawking their wares and others arguing, and so much noise and bustle the horse and carriage is nearly overturned. Etching by George Cruikshank.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Helleborus x hybridus Hort. Ex Vilmorin Ranunculaceae. A range of hybrids from Helleborus orientalis the Oriental hellebore. Distribution: Europe through to the Caucasus. All very poisonous. Culpeper (1650) says: “The roots (boiled in vinegar) ... be an admirable remedy against inveterate scabs, itch and leprosy, the same helps the toothache, being held in the mouth: dropped into the ears, helpeth deafness coming of melancholy and noises in the ears
  • Two nurses whispering and causing a nuisance to patients. Colour lithograph after Fougasse, 1958.
  • 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 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.
  • A man who is trying to read being disturbed by a family in conversation. Wood engraving by Swain after F. Barnard.
  • Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.
  • Constant barking can be avoided : here are some helpful tips / Department of the Environment, Welsh Office, Scottish Office.
  • A drunken bacchanalian gathering with women and a satyr trying to waken two sleeping men. Etching by G. de Lairesse after himself.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A man with puffed up cheeks blowing a trumpet loudly. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A man with puffed up cheeks blowing a trumpet loudly. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Surgery using a telephone probe to locate a bullet: a surgeon wears telephone receiver headphones attached to a metal probe inserted into the patient's arm as he looks on. Photograph, ca. 1915.
  • Pheasant margarine : "for people of good taste" : 1/- per LB.
  • Pheasant margarine : "for people of good taste" : 1/- per LB.
  • Christ healing a man of leprosy. Woodcut, 1571, after Jost Amman.
  • Christ healing a man of leprosy. Woodcut, 1571, after Jost Amman.
  • 3D view on vessels of a healthy minipig eye. The upper opening corresponds to the pupil as the gateway input of all light into the eye. It is interesting to see the marked abundance of vessels of the pupil which bring energy and food to the muscles to control the amount of incident light. The other large vessels are feeder vessels for the outer layers of the retina and muscles, so, that the eye quickly can perceive the environment and the creature may adapt and survive.
  • Saint John the Evangelist. Line engraving by F. Bahmann, 1834, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • Charles James Fox as a newsboy delivering newspapers to the Treasury, spreading panic and advertising his suitability for a government post. Etching by James Gillray.
  • The suicide of Cato. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.
  • A concertina of seven vertical ladders. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.