Hogarth's House

29 April - I visited Hogarth's House a small museum based in William Hogarth’s house in Hogarth Lane, Chiswick. They have got a number of Hogarth’s plates hung on the Walls including A Rake’s Progress, Marriage a la Mode, Gin Lane and Beer Street, Four Stages of Cruelty and Calais Gate. They all nicely hung and are accompanied by a description of the plate and where applicable series. There are also reproductions of some items of furniture which would have been in the house and some interesting displays of artefacts including his palate, etching tools and a copper plate for one of his Hudibris prints.

If you are interested in caricature of eighteenth century history it is well worth a visit, if only to see where the “Father of English Caricature” once lived.