Vestal Virgin, priestess of Vesta, goddess of the hearh, ancient Rome. She wears a stola and palla or shawl, stands before the sacred hearth with water pitcher and patera. Vestale Romaine. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by L. Labrousse, artist of Bordeaux, under the direction of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur from his L’antique Rome, ou description historique et pittoresque, Ancient Rome, or historical and picturesque description, Chez Deroy, Paris, 1796.

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