Eton College Collections

Facilities include: a readers' room for researchers, on-site and remote reference services, teaching support for the college, specialist group and school visits, regularly changing exhibitions and imaging services.

The Fine & Decorative Art collection at Eton College dates back to the first century of the school's history.

The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, furniture, stained glass and textiles.

Also, the drawings and watercolours: the collection includes some 1,500 such works, depicting a wide variety of subjects and painted by some of the best-known artists in the medium, including Gainsborough, Thomas Girtin, J. M. W. Turner and Samuel Palmer.

Casa Guidi is a small house in Florence which was owned and inhabited by Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.