A yacht and three warships in a storm

1665

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of two
Dimensions: Plate: 5 × 11 in. (12.7 × 28 cm) Sheet: 5 1/4 × 11 1/16 in. (13.4 × 28.1 cm)
Collection no.: 62.635.398
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Wenceslaus Hollar. A yacht and three warships in a storm. Wenceslaus Hollar; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

A yacht and three warships in a storm — Wenceslaus Hollar. 1665.

Medium: Etching; first state of two. Dimensions: Plate: 5 × 11 in. (12.7 × 28 cm) Sheet: 5 1/4 × 11 1/16 in. (13.4 × 28.1 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962.

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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