HOGARTH'S HOUSE AT CHISWICK, 1941
Watercolour and pencil. 17½ x 13½in. (45 x 35cm.)
Signed: Ithell Colquhoun /41.
Provenance
National Trust bequest.
Acquired November 1990 by the Museum of London. Accession No: 90.359.
This work shows bomb damage at Hogarth’s House sustained during an air raid on the 26th September, 1940. At the time, Colquhoun was living close by in Fairfax Road, Bedford Park.
The house was the artist’s country retreat from 1749-1764. The building was opened as a museum in 1909 and reopened after WW2 in 1951.