If you missed our ‘Chiswick’s Top Dogs’ exhibition at Clare Balding’s talk at Chiswick House & Gardens, you can catch up with it in St Michael & All Angels Church. Find out who is the dog in the foreground of ‘The Royal Garden Party at Chiswick’ (detail above, Royal Collection Trust).
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To celebrate this year’s Chiswick House Dog Show and the dog appearances at the Chiswick Book Festival (above), we have created a ‘Chiswick’s Top Dogs’ Quiz. Answer the questions below and you could win a 1904 edition of ‘A Dog’s Day’ from Foster Books (below)! Entries close at midnight on Sunday September 29th 2024. You can find clues in the Exhibition in St Michael & All Angels Church – or by searching online.
1. Who hosted a party for 300 ‘top dogs’ of British society in the gardens of Chiswick House?
2. What is the name of the dog in the foreground of the painting ‘The Royal Garden Party at Chiswick’?
3. What is the name of the spaniel given to Queen Victoria by the Duke of Devonshire on one of her visits to Chiswick House?
4. Which other dog is commemorated with a tomb near the Amphitheatre in Chiswick House Gardens, and who are the dog’s likeliest owners?
5. What is the name of William Hogarth’s pug and where can you see a statue of them together?
6. Which other dog is commemorated in the Mulberry Garden at Hogarth’s House?
7. Cecil Aldin is the illustrator of A Dog Day, a 1904 edition of which is kindly being donated as the prize for this quiz by Stephen Foster of Foster Books. Where in Chiswick was Aldin photographed with four dogs in the 1890s?
8. Who said that A Dog Day was ‘one of my favourite books of all time’?
Tie-breaker: In the event of a tie, the first prize will be awarded to the person who the judges think has given the best answer to this question: “Why I deserve to win a 1904 edition of A Dog Day“. The judges’ decision will be final.
