Fashionable Figures, with Two Women Holding Fans

Richard Redgrave and Samuel Redgrave, A Century of Painters of the English School, vol. 1, London, 1866, pp. 59-61; 2nd ed., 1890, pp. 24-25.

Christopher Hussey, “Painted Staircases at 8, Clifford Street and 76, Dean Street,” Country Life 101, 2617 (1947), p. 468.

bought by Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Crane, together with many fittings of the house, 1925

Sydney de Brie, “ From Soho to New York,” Country Life 47, 4 (1925), pp. 86-90 (ill. of reconstruction).

With 1925.1682b, part of a decorative mural scheme in the main staircase of no. 75 Dean Street, Soho, London, built by builder-carpenter Thomas Richmond and first occupied by Bulstrode Peachey Knight, who leased the house from 1733, but probably first took occupancy in 1735 [see Sheppard 1966, vol. 33, pp. 221-22

“Fittings of a Famous English House,” American Architect – Architectural Review 123 (1923), pp. 267, 270, 272.

W. and J. Sloane, The Fittings of a Famous English House Known as The Hogarth House, Existing in the Once Fashionable Locality of Soho in London, New York, 1921, n. p. (ill. of reconstruction and elevation).

acquired with most of the interior fittings of the house by Monday, Kern, and Herbert, London, 1919 [see the Times (London), 1919]. W. and J. Sloane and Co., New York, by 1921, to 1925 [W. and J. Sloane 1921 and de Brie 1925]

“The Hogarth House in Soho: Vandalism Far Advanced,” Times (London), May 3, 1919, p. 9.

“The Georgian House in Soho: Position of the Owner,” Times (London), January 19, 1914, p. 5.

W. J. Fraser, “A Georgian House in Danger: Evidence from Leases,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 14, 1914, p. 11.

May Morris, “The Future of 75, Dean Street,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 26, 1914, p. 6.

Guy Francis Laking, letter to the editor, Times (London), January 16, 1914, p. 47.

“A Georgian House in Danger: Thornhill and Hogarth,” Times (London), January 9, 1914, p. 9.

Edward Warren, F.S.A., “No. 75, Dean Street: A Suggestion for its Use,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 20, 1914, p. 9.

“The Georgian House in Soho: Need for Instant Action,” Times (London), January 15, 1914, p. 9.

“The Georgian House in Soho,” Times (London), March 11, 1914, p. 6.

“Georgian House Saved: Intervention of the Office of Works,” Times (London), January 17, 1914, p. 8.

Gilbert R. Redgrave, “A Georgian House in Danger: The Wall-Paintings Fifty Years Ago,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 13, 1914, p. 10.

Walter Crane, “No. 75, Dean Street: A Plea for the Arts & Crafts,” letter to the editor, Times (London), January 23, 1914, p. 7.

“The Georgian House in Soho: Contract Not Yet Signed: Drawings of the Door and Staircase,” Times (London), January 16, 1914, p. 47.

J. M. W. Halley, “Sir James Thornhill’s House in Soho,” Architectural Review 33 (1913), pp. 52-54, ill.

“A Real Antique in Soho,” Spectator (London), no. 4,408 (December 21, 1912,), pp. 1052-53.

the house was bought by H.H. Mulliner in 1912, and the mural decoration removed in 1919 in preparation for demolition of the house, which took place in 1923 [Sheppard 1966, vol. 33, pp. 223-24]

J. B., “Possible Hogarth Paintings in a Soho House,” Manchester Guardian, December 16, 1912.

Ralph Dutton, The English Interior, 1500-1900, London, 1948, pp. 92-93, fig. 67.

given to the Art Institute, 1925 (the staircase, installed at the Art Institute without the murals in the late 1940s, was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, October 18, 1997, no. 391).

Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600-1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1996, pp. 188-193, ill.

the erroneous association of the staircase decoration and later the house itself with Sir James Thornhill (died 1734) and his son-in-law William Hogarth, goes back to the early 19th century, see Warner 1996, p. ]

F. H. W. Sheppard, ed., The Survey of London, vols. 40, The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, London, 1980, pp. 155, 158.

Edward Croft-Murray, Decorative Painting in England, 1537-1837, vol. 2, London, 1970, pp. 234, no. 13, 303, under no. 5.

Desmond Fitz-Gerald, “The Mural from 44, Grosvenor Square,” Victoria and Albert Museum Yearbook 1 (1969), pp. 146-51, fig. 5.

F. H. W. Sheppard, ed., The Survey of London, vols. 33-34, The Parish of Saint Anne, Soho, London, 1966: vol. 33, pp. 15, 221-26, 228, 330-31; vol. 34, pls. 104a and c; 105a and c.

Reginald Colby, “44, Grosvenor Square, The Residence of Lady Illingworth,” Country Life 130, 3360 (1961), p. 193.