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The World within your Hand: The Press

What comes to mind when you think of the Wallace Collection? Old Master Painting? Rococo decadence? Perhaps even the hardened steel in the armouries? Over a series of blogs, Helen Jones, our Library...

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The World within your Hand: The Bindery

What comes to mind when you think of the Wallace Collection? Old Master Painting? Rococo decadence? Perhaps even the hardened steel in the armouries? Over a series of blogs, Helen Jones, our Library...

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Arms and Armour: Experts and Collectors. Samuel Rush Meyrick

A small display currently in European Armouries II and III celebrates two arms and armour experts and collectors whose archives the Wallace Collection holds – Samuel Rush Meyrick and Claude Blair. In...

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Arms and Armour: Experts and Collectors. Claude Blair

A small display currently in European Armouries II and III celebrates two arms and armour experts and collectors whose archives the Wallace Collection hold – Samuel Rush Meyrick and Claude Blair. In...

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Auditing the Middle Ages

The Wallace Collection’s library holds a number of rare books, which our visitors can view on request. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores Les arts au Moyen Age by Alexandre...

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A city on the brink of change: Paris 1788

The Wallace Collection’s library holds a number of rare books, which our visitors can view on request. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores century Almanach parisien en faveur...

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“Something that remains after we are gone”: the life and collection of Henri...

The Wallace Collection’s library holds a number of rare books, which our visitors can view on request. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores Oriental arms and armour: Collection...

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The lost cannon of Venice

The Wallace Collection’s library holds a number of rare books, which our visitors can view on request. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores Domenico Gasperoni’s Artiglieria...

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Gloves or no gloves….

Ways to handle rare objects often cause debate even amongst specialists. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores how she handles the fragile books in the Wallace Collection’s...

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Armour mon amour

The Wallace Collection’s library holds a number of rare books, which our visitors can view on request. In this blog by Helen Jones, Library Cataloguer, she explores Engraved illustrations of antient...

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