Hogarth's engravings also inspired the BBC radio play " The Midnight House " by Jonathan Hall, based on the M. R. James ghost story " The Mezzotint " and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

In 1703 his father Richard opened a coffee house there, ' Hogarth's Coffee House ', offering Latin lessons together with the coffee.

Hogarth's House.

Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick.

Alfred Dawson, whose family home at The Cedars adjoined Hogarth's and whose printing works was nearby, rescued the House in 1890 and restored it.

The furnishing includes Shipway's replica pieces and the new exhibition presents the House as a home, as well as celebrating Hogarth's life and work.

* Images of Hogarth's House at the National Monuments Record, English Heritage

* Images of Hogarth's House at the Country Life Picture Library

In Great Britain, one of Hogarth's set of paintings forming a melodramatic morality tale titled Marriage à la Mode, engraved in 1745, shows the parade rooms of a stylish London house, in which the only rococo is in plasterwork of the salon's ceiling.

Hogarth's truthful, vivid full-length portrait of his friend, the philanthropic Captain Coram ( 1740 ; formerly Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now Foundling Museum ), and his unfinished oil sketch of The Shrimp Girl ( National Gallery, London ) may be called masterpieces of British painting.

* Peter Quennell, Hogarth's Progress ( London, New York 1955 )

* Ronald Paulson, Hogarth's Graphic Works ( 3rd edn, London 1989 )

* ' Hogarth's London ', lecture by Robin Simon at Gresham College, 8 October 2007 ( available for download as MP3, MP4 or text files )

* Hogarth's London video hosted at Tate Britain's website by Martin Rowson

* In Jane R. Goodall's 2004 mystery novel The Walker ( Hodder Headline ISBN 0-7336-1897-9 ), ancient secrets pertaining to the creation of the alchemical homunculus are central to a plot involving murders based on Hogarth's prints and set in " Swinging London ".

March of the Guards to Finchley ( 1750 ), William Hogarth's satirical depiction of troops mustered to defend London from the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.

* Hogarth's House-official site at London Borough of Hounslow

* David Coke, " Vauxhall Gardens ", Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England ( London: Victoria and Albert Museum ) 1984: 75-81.

Russell Banks ' short story " Indisposed " is a fictional account of Hogarth's infidelity as told from the viewpoint of his wife, Jane.

March of the Guards to Finchley ( 1750 ), William Hogarth's satirical masterpiece, donated by the artist to the Foundling Hospital. The Committee Room, one of the original eighteenth century interiors, is the room where mothers intending to leave their babies would be interviewed for suitability.

In Dennis Todd's Three Characters in Hogarth's Cunicularii and Some Implications the author concludes that figure " G " is Mary Toft's sister-in-law, Margaret Toft.

He is depicted in William Hogarth's 1761 engraving Five Orders of Periwigs.

There is a preposterous tone at times, but Steve Hogarth's voice is lovable, tear-jerking and even beautiful ..."

The track " This Strange Engine " is an autobiographical account of Steve Hogarth's life.

I should think myself honored by the opinion of any gentleman on this point ; but until I shall by better informed, shall conclude this general proportion of two and one to be the most pictoresque medium in all cases of breaking or otherwise qualifying straight lines and masses and groupes, as Hogarth's line is agreed to be the most beautiful, ( or, in other words, the most pictoresque ) medium of curves.

The tower is depicted in William Hogarth's well-known engraving " Gin Lane " ( 1751 ).

William Hogarth's Gin Lane is not entirely caricature, for in 1750, over a fourth of all houses in St Giles were gin shops, all unlicensed.

The tree in front is a mulberry which was present in Hogarth's time, and has some local fame.

The earliest pictorial representation of Tyers ' Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, is the " Vauxhall fan " ( 1736 ), an etching printed in blue designed to be pasted to a fan ; it shows the earliest groups of pavilions, in a sober classical taste, but the interiors of the supper boxes were painted by members of Hogarth's St. Martin's Lane Academy, prominent among them Francis Hayman.

William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress displays in graphical form the downwardly spiralling fortunes of a wealthy but spendthrift son and heir who loses his money, and who as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bedlam.

Hogarth's engraving Gin Lane is a well known image of the gin craze.

Le Sopha is visible as the title of a book in The Toilette, one of William Hogarth's series of satirical paintings Marriage à-la-mode, made 1743-1745

Notable Hogarth engravings in the 1740s includeThe Enraged Musician ( 1741 ), the six prints of Marriage à-la-mode ( 1745 ; executed by French artists under Hogarth's inspection ), and The Stage Coach or The Country Inn Yard ( 1747 ).

His friend, J. T. Smith, related that plates of Hogarth's Industry and Idleness hung in the schoolroom ; once a month Adams read a lecture on these examples and then rewarded the industrious boys and caned the idle.

Hayman provided most of the subjects, which were rapidly executed by students and assistants ; Hubert Gravelot provided designs for two others, and Hogarth's designs were pressed into service in hastily dashed-off copies that filled the back of every box.

The idea came from one of William Hogarth's engravings.

Hogarth's picture shows her in one of the scenes, with the Duke of Bolton in a box.

William Hogarth's famous print of Night shows a drunken Mason being helped home by the Tyler, from one of the four original Lodges in 1717 at the Rummer & Grapes tavern.

Hogarth's work were a direct influence on John Collier, who was known as the " Lancashire Hogarth ".

Independent shops were risky in the 1740s because no strict copyright laws, other than the Engraving Copyright Act of 1734 ( known as " Hogarth's Act "), had yet been instituted.

* March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain ( d. 1737 ); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress