Portuguese triumphal arch (front), 1594; Arcus Lusitanorum. Portuguese triumphal arch (front). With images of women sitting on indigenous animals representing the countries: Ethiopia, India, Mauritania and Brazil. Founded on the corner of the Zuidevettersstraat. Part of the description of the arrival of Aartshertog Ernst in Antwerp, July 18, 1594, by Joannes Bochius, Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis, Spectaculum et Ludorum, in Adventu Sereniss. Principis Ernesti Archiducis Austriae, ex officina Plantiniana, Antwerp 1595.

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