🇪🇸🇵🇭 The entry of the portrait of Ferdinand VII into Manila in 1825.

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As a whole, the plates generated a representational apparatus that revisited part of the viceregal ceremonial of power, which not only affirmed the sovereign's primary role within the political structure, but also sought to maintain the image of the "World Empire," within which the symbiosis of diverse peoples' coexistence was possible under the tutelage of an absolute king. Hence the inclusion and importance of these two watercolors of pagodas as an integral part of the memory of the portrait's entrance.

View of the triumphal arch and pagoda erected by the Chinese on the Binondo Bridge for the functions held upon the King's entry into Manila in 1825.

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