Wallace Collection / Tea at the Zetter Townhouse / Buckingham Palace

The picture diary of our London trip continues.

The Wallace Collection is a smaller museum, an amazing private collection that was given to the state in 1897. The highlight of the collection, and the reason we went, is the Fragonard painting the Swing, but there are countless of other amazing things in the museum. My kids enjoyed the armor section, and I loved all the pottery and the period rooms. 

A nice surprise was that I found smaller copies of the Marly Horse statues at the Wallace Collection. The originals are in the Louvre and we saw them last year in Paris. Beautiful copies of the statues were made for the Mackay Estate in Long Island in the 1800s, however the estate is long gone, and those impressive statues which were recently restored, are now at the Roslyn High School and at the Gerry Pond Park in Roslyn. 

Fragonard's Swing. My oldest daughter's favorite painting. This painting tells an interesting story. 

One of the things I really wanted to do in London was to enjoy an afternoon tea. Obviously there are tons of places to do this, but I wanted a place that had a traditional feeling and didn't cost a fortune. The Zetter Townhouse was written up in the February 2020 Vogue Magazine as one of the best places to have tea in London, and seemed to fit the bill. It was a lovely place and we had a nice indulgent experience.