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The Vestal Virgin Tuccia and her Sieve Before the River God Tiber

Maker

(artist)
1523-1605

(printmaker)
1571-1633

(publisher)
1537-1612

Title

The Vestal Virgin Tuccia and her Sieve Before the River God Tiber

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 28.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2373

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Tuccia















Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within image, lower: “Ioan. Strad. inven. / Theodor. Galle / Sculpsit. Phls Galle excud. //”; lower margin: “Da pater illaesi testem, Tyberine, pudoris / Te mihi, Vestalemq3 tuo de gurgite numpham / Arguat vnda ream cribro contenta, nefando / Delatam indicio, prius haec non visa ferentem / Pontifices portenta foro mirentur, et omnis / Posteritas, purgetq3 suo se Tucia cribro. //”; left, lower margin, graphite: “The River God Tiber with the Urn & the vestal Tuccia / Hall 397 / Theodor Galle artist Stradanus //”; lower margin, typed: “J. STRADANUS //”.

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