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Hogarth's country retreat, free, beside the road that roars where his fields were, with the fullest public set of his prints inside.
Artist's houseFree
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William Hogarth, the painter who invented the moral comic strip in A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode, bought this house in 1749 as a summer place in what was then the village of Chiswick, and came out here from Leicester Square until he died in 1764; he is buried in the churchyard by the river. The house is small and brick, of the 1710s, and the Great West Road now passes a few yards from its gate, which is a joke Hogarth would have enjoyed. Inside, hung on the walls as he sold them, is the fullest public set of his engravings, Gin Lane and Beer Street, the Rake, the Harlot, the Election and the rest, with the story of the house and of the artist who took on the print pirates and got the first copyright act for engravers passed in 1735. The mulberry tree in the garden, propped and pruned, was there in his time. Entry is free.
| Monday | Closed |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 – 17:00 |
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