Hogarth's House

Today William Hogarth's "country retreat" in Chiswick reopened after an extensive restoration delayed by a fire during the work. (His town house was in what is now Leicester Square.) The interior of Hogarth's Chiswick house has been restored to appear as it might have looked in his day with some of his belongings on show, but with the addition of prints of his more famous engravings. An ancient mulberry tree still stands in the garden. The Hogarths are said to have made mulberry pies for the Foundling children (abandoned orphans) who stayed with them (title link). CLICK for a BBC News slide show. CLICK for a Paul Kerley video tour with voiceover by Lars Tharp, a leading member of the Hogarth Trust and an Antiques Roadshow expert.