Library and Archives
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)