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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.
  • Two nurses whispering and causing a nuisance to patients. Colour lithograph after Fougasse, 1958.
  • 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.
  • A concertina of seven vertical ladders. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • A concertina of seven vertical ladders. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1966.
  • 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.
  • Saint John the Evangelist. Line engraving by F. Bahmann, 1834, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.
  • A horse-drawn carriage containing the orchestra of Louis Antoine Jullien is driven at speed along a road. Wood engraving and letterpress.