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SCHELTE A. BOLSWERT Triumphal Arch with the Coat-of-Arms of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand. Engraving, circa 1635. 475x360 mm; 18 3/4x14 1/4 inches. A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce engraving. The Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (circa 1610-1641), brother of the Spanish King Philip IV and an important Spanish military commander during the Thurty Years War, triumphantly entered the city of Antwerp in 1635 after a series of victorious battles in what are now Germany and Belgium. Peter Paul Rubens was called upon by the civic leaders of Antwerp to design a series of triumpahl arches, made primarily of wood though painted to resemble stone monuments à la theatre scenery, to line the Cardinal-Infante's processional to the city center. With--A group of 5 engraved portraits by BOLSWERT; four of which are after VAN DYCK. Various sizes and conditions. Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Hollstein 326 and 332; and New Holstein 13, 49, 51 and 80 (Van Dyck).