Qualla: Hogarth's House https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hogarth's House https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house Hogarth's House: Introduction https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Colin McLaughlin, CC BY-SA 4.0. A mulberry tree still grows in the walled garden behind Hogarth's House, and it is almost certainly the last living thing from the orchard that stood here in the 1670s - older than the house, older than William Hogarth himself. The tree was nearly killed by a parachute mine that fell nearby in September 1940. Arboriculturists from Kew brought it back. That mulberry is probably the best summary of the place: stubborn, scarred, still standing while London races past on the A4 a few yards beyond the garden wall.

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/gcpu-hogarths-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hogarth's House: When Chiswick Was Country https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0. Built between 1713 and 1717 in the corner of an orchard owned by the Downes family, the house was intended as a country retreat - because in the eighteenth century Chiswick was country. London ended somewhere out east; this was a separate village, reachable by carriage along the ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/gcpu-hogarths-house-when-chiswick-was-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Hogarth's House: The Painter Buys the Place https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Acediscovery, CC BY 4.0. The Hogarths bought the house in 1749 from Ruperti's son. By then William Hogarth was already the satirist of Georgian London - the engraver behind A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress, and Marriage a-la-mode, prints that lacerated the manners of his age while making him rich. ...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/gcpu-hogarths-house-the-painter-buys-the-place.mp3 0:06 3 full Hogarth's House: Layers of Tenants https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Clare Gibson, CC BY-SA 2.0. After Mary Lewis died in 1808 the Hogarth connection ended, but the house kept attracting people drawn to its quiet rooms. From 1814 to 1833 the curate of St Nicholas's, Henry Francis Cary, lived here while completing his celebrated translation of Dante's Divine Comedy - a transl...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/gcpu-hogarths-house-layers-of-tenants.mp3 0:06 4 full Hogarth's House: The Bomb and the Fire https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Public domain. Twentieth-century London was hard on Hogarth's House. In September 1940 a Luftwaffe parachute mine exploded nearby, shredding the single-storey extension and battering the rest. Repairs took until 1951. The house was barely settling into a new century when, on 14 August 2009, fir...

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]]> Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/hogarth-s-house-wp/gcpu-hogarths-house-the-bomb-and-the-fire.mp3 0:06 5 full Hogarth's House: What's Inside Now https://qualla.com/hogarth-s-house/ Photo credit Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two floors are open today, free to anyone who walks in off the A4. The displays present the building as a working home - the kitchen, the parlour, the dining room - alongside cabinets of Hogarth's most famous engravings. Visitors can study the precise moral catastrophes he constr...

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