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Hogarth's House

Address: Hogarth La., Great West Road, Chiswick, London, W4 2QN | Map It
Phone: 020/8994-6757
www.hounslow.info/arts/hogarthshouse

Category: Houses/Mansions
Location: The Thames Upstream

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Fodor's Review:

This was the home of William Hogarth, the satirical painter and engraver, from 1749 until his death in 1764 (his tomb can be found in the cemetery of St. Nicholas's church on Chiswick Mall). Unprotected from the six-lane Great West Road, which remains a main route to the West Country, the poor house is besieged by surrounding traffic, but it's worth visiting for its little museum containing his amusing moralistic engravings, such as Beer Street, Marriage à la Mode, The Harlot's Progress, and the most famous of all, the Rake's Progress series of 1735. Look out for the 300-year-old mulberry tree in the garden, a vain attempt to get silkworms to breed in England.

Cost: Free
Open: Apr.-Sept., Tues.-Fri. 1-5, weekends 1-6; Oct.-Mar., Tues.-Fri. 1-4, weekends 1-5
Tube: Turnham Green

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