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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.

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.

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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.

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.