print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1884,0112.39
- Description
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Plate 8: The Advent of the Prince; at the centre Fortune presents Ferdinand on horseback to Belgica, accompanied by her lion, and behind her is the figure of Public Health, holding a snake; a putto raises the coat of arms of Antwerp at the right; Mars Gravidus, accompanied by the figure of Valour, tramples the slain enemy at the left; above flies winged Victory extending a laurel wreath; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration for Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus" (Antwerp, 1641)
Etching
- Production date
- 1635-1641 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 284 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Height: 649 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 315 millimetres
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Width: 543 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a series of forty-three plates illustrating Gaspar Gevaerts' "Pompa Introitus"; for further comments see 1884,0112.31. This etching after Rubens depicts the centrepiece for the Stage of Welcome, the first of the temporary decorations erected for Ferdinand's triumphal entry into Antwerp. Rather than reproducing Cornelis Schut's canvas, painted after Rubens' oil sketch and installed in the decoration, Van Thulden probably worked directly from Rubens' study, omitting the illusion of tapestry.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Entry of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria into Antwerp 1635 (17 April)
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Antwerp, 1641)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Acquisition notes
- For comments see 1884,0112.31.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1884,0112.39