The Coronation of King Charles the II in Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1661 (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662)

1662

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Collection no.: 23.89.9
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. The Coronation of King Charles the II in Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1661 (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662). Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Coronation of King Charles the II in Westminster Abbey, April 23, 1661 (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662) — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1662.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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