Library and Archives

The Wallace Collection Library and Archives reflect the collections and history of the Museum and its founders.

We have material on the following subjects:

• Painting from the Old Masters to the mid-19th century
• French 17th- and 18th-century decorative arts
• European sculpture from the Renaissance to the 18th century
• Medieval and Renaissance decorative arts
• Bronzes (Renaissance, Baroque, French eighteenth-century)
• Sèvres porcelain
• Arms and Armour
• Portrait miniatures
• Maiolica
• History of collecting

We also have digitised material available online via the Internet Archive:

• Herford House Visitors Book, 1876–1897
• Domenico Gasperoni's Artiglieria Veneta (a rare eighteenth-century part print, part manuscript book on Venetian cannons, consisting largely of printed engravings of cannons and artillery tactics)