Talk on Gardens in the Time of Hogarth
Dr Sally Jeffrey to give lecture at Hogarth's House
Hogarth's House garden, 1913, Jessie MacGregor
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Dr Sally Jeffery is to give a talk on Gardens in the time of Hogarth in the Weston Studio at Hogarth’s House at 6.30pm on Tuesday 22 February.
The talk is part of the programme of events organised by the Hogarth’s House team. It will look at smaller gardens in London and its environs, focussing mainly on the time of Hogarth and his contemporaries.
Small gardens, like the one at Hogarth’s House, have been rather neglected by historians, who have tended to explore the stories of grander and larger gardens in town and country. However, modest plots cultivated by less wealthy people can be equally interesting. Some were used solely for growing vegetables and fruit, with just a few flowers for ornament, while others were entirely devoted to pleasure and entertainment.
Dr Sally Jeffery is an architectural and garden historian. She lives in Chiswick and has been a Trustee of the William Hogarth Trust for a number of years. Sally was historian at the City of London and then helped to set up a Masters’ degree in garden history at Birkbeck (University of London). She now lectures on the MA Garden and Landscape History at the Institute of Historical Research and for The Gardens Trust, of which she is a Trustee. She enjoys researching and writing about the history of gardens large and small, particularly those of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Tickets £8, talk only, or £10 with a drink.
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February 13, 2022
