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Book ID: 2690
| Title | Pompa introitus honore serenessimi principi Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum Infantis S.R.E. Card. Bergarum et Burgundiorum Gubernatoris a S.P.Q. Antverp decreta et adornata, cum mox a nobilissima ad Norlingam parta Victoria, Antverpiam . . . adventu suo bearet; 15.kal. Maii. Ann.1635. Arcus, Pegmata, Iconesque a Pet. Paulo Rubenio . . . inventas et delineatas inscriptionibus et elogiis ornabat, libroque commentario illustrabat C.G. Accessit Laurea Calloana ab eodem auctore descripta Antverpiae veneunt exemplaria apud T. a Tulden qui iconum tabulas ex archetypis Rubenianis delineavit et sculpsit. | |||||
| Authors | Gerartius, Joannes Casparus | |||||
| Year of event | 1635 | |||||
| Event description | Entry into Antwerp of Ferdinand, Infante of Spain, Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, Governor of the Netherlands (1609-1641) | |||||
| Event type | Entries | |||||
| Event place | Antwerp | |||||
| Publication info | Antwerp; 1641; 2° | |||||
| Pages | ||||||
| Illustrations | 40 engraved plates | |||||
| Festival type | Cavalcades; Inscriptions; Triumphal arches; Entries; Maps | |||||
| Rulers | Ferdinand, Infante of Spain and Cardinal | |||||
| Artists | Rubens, Pieter Paul; Tulden, Theodor van | |||||
| Shelfmark | BL 136.g.9; BL 747.g.7.; BL 747.g.8. | |||||
| URL | http://special-1.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/BookDetails.aspx?strFest=0152 | |||||
| Notes | The designer is Pieter Paul Rubens. The copy at BL 747.g.7. is the 1642 edition with a new titlepage and has 48 plates. The copy at BL 136.g.9. has 87 plates. There is a modern English edition: 'The magnificent ceremonial entry into Antwerp of His Royal Highness Ferdinand of Austria on the fifteenth day of May 1635, as designed by Peter Paul Rubens ... with descriptive text by Casperius Gevartius and engravings, after the designs of Peter Paul Rubens, by Theodor van Thulden' (New York: Benjamin Blom, 1971). There is also a monograph by John Rupert Martin, 'Decorations to the Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi' (London: Phaiden, 1972). | |||||