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Vestal virgins

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  • The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.

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    Lucius Albinius giving his cart to the Vestal Virgins instead of to his own family as they flee from the invasion of Rome by the Gauls. Mezzotint by J. Bernhard after H.F. Füger.

    Heinrich Füger | Date: [between 1800 and 1809?] | Reference: 3063613i
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    The Vestal virgin Tuccia being inspected while carrying water in a sieve to prove her chastity. Etching by P.W. Tomkins,1798, after Sir J. Reynolds.

    Joshua Reynolds | Date: April 3d 1798 | Reference: 536282i

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