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Etching of four men in top hats on a brick-walled city street at night, with an older man in a nightcap watching from a doorway at left.

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.

An etching shows four men in top hats and coats on a city street outside a brick building with arched doorways. At left, an older man in a nightcap and long robe peers out from a doorway, while the three companions stagger and gesture near the curb. Fine line hatching defines the architecture and figures.

Artist
George Cruikshank
Date
[1839]
Medium
Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
3141 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1839.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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