The coronation of Henry VI of England mb-code 42-23677174 19th January 1978

19th January 1978

by Robert Wilson

The work is inscribed in pencil: '18/3/96

William Wilberforce standing on the pedestal of the Achilles statue in Hyde Park and holding his top hat over the fig leaf

A mackerel seller at Billingsgate

The coronation of Henry VI of England mb-code 42-23677174 19th January 1978The coronation of Henry VI of England, 1422 (c1905). The King was crowned in both London and Paris. The last monarch of the House of Lancaster, he ruled with a regent until his majority in 1437, then alone until he was deposed in 1461. Restored to the throne in 1470, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London the following year and murdered. Print published in Parliament Past and Present by Arnold Wright and Philip Smith, (London, c1905).