Today we hopped on the Piccadilly Tube Line at Earls Court Station and exited at Osterley Tube Stop, a few stops before Heathrow Airport but still in London, where we visited the magnificent Osterley Park and House. Built in the 1570s as a Tudor House where Queen Elizabeth I once visited, it was transformed in the 1760s into a grand country house for the sole purpose of entertaining visitors by wealthy London banker Sir Robert Child. Today the house is close to the busy M4 motorway, but strolling through the grand rooms of this grand palace and its beautiful, peaceful gardens, one feels far away from the modern world with all its challenges.
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| Horse Stables Café |
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The goddess Ceres being pulled on her chariot by lions
by the Italian artist Cipriani circa 1767.
An example of Grisaille, a flat drawing meant to imitate sculpture. |
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| Harpsichord made in 1781 |
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| The Yellow Breakfast Room |
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The Tapestry Room
These tapestries from Paris have been in the house since the 1700s
and retain their original color. |
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| Original painted wallpaper from the 1700s |
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| Ceiling in the Etruscan Room |
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| Pacific Madrone native to North America |
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