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.
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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. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] : [Chapman & Hall], [1839]

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1 print : etching ; image 11 6 x 10.5 cm

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Our next-door neighbours. George Cruikshank.

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Philip V. Allingham, Victorian web http://www.victorianweb.org/ (as originally published in 1837 with "neighbour" in the lettering, but redrawn by Cruikshank for publication in 1839 after Dickens had bought back the copyright, and published by Chapman & Hall with the lettering erroneously changed to "neighbours")

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Wellcome Collection 35955i

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