Hogarth House: View of House and Garden, by Jessie Macgregor (1847-1919). 1911 or 1912 (see preface). Watercolour drawing. Source: Macgregor, facing p. 218.
The main interest here is provided by the long brick wall facing a row of old London plane trees, with daffodils in the flowerbeds near the house. Hogarth was every inch a Londoner, says Macgregor, but he chose this "small house in a large garden" in what was then "a village to the far west of Charing Cross" (227) for his summer home. Even when Macgregor was going to paint there, it was open to the public three days a week, and, she says, despite the encroachment of other properties, it is still worth visiting:
So far as is possible, the garden is still "laid out in good style." The beautiful old brick wall to the left of my picture, is high enough to shut out the ugly street on its outer side, and the old vine still clings to it in places. The Filbert Walk, of which one reads, has gone, but the path remains, lined by plane trees which lend a grateful shade in what Carlyle called the "July blazes." Hogarth's country studio, at its lower end, has been absorbed in the surrounding buildings; it has been turned into a stable or a warehouse; and, sighing, one exclaims, " What sacrilege!" [233-34].
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MacGregor, Jessie. Gardens of Celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London. London: Hutchinson, 1918. Internet Archive. Contributed by the University of British Columbia Library. Web. 21 March 2022.
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