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

The Library and Archive will be closed until the end of 2020. We hope to reopen to visitors in January 2021, however this is dependent on government guidance.

Staff are now back onsite and we can still 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