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)
If you have any queries about using the library, please read our FAQs
The Library and Archive are currently closed
We may be able fulfil some research and reprographic requests remotely, so please still do get in touch with us by email on library@wallacecollection.org or by calling 0207 563 9528
