This photochrome print of the Brabo Monument in Antwerp is part of “Views of Architecture and Other Sites in Belgium” from the catalog of the Detroit Publishing Company (1905). Dedicated to the legendary hero Salvius Brabo, the monument was designed by Jef Lambeaux (1852–1908) and is located on the Grand Place in Antwerp. As described in Baedeker’s Belgium and Holland including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (1905), Brabo was “a mythical hero who defeated and cut off the hand of the giant Antigonus. The giant used to exact a heavy toll from vessels entering the Scheldt, and ruthlessly cut off and threw into the river a hand of every shipmaster who refused to pay." This legend is said to explain Antwerp's unusual name, which is a compound of the Flemish words for “hand” (ant) and “to throw” (werpen). Monuments and memorials; Plazas; Statues