Tuccia with a sieve on the Waterkant, Pieter Jalhea Furnius, after Jan van der Straet, 1573 print The Vestal Virgin Tuccia was accused of adultery but showed her innocence by filling a sieve with water and wearing it without the water leaking out. Tuccia is on the waterfront to fill her sieve with water, on the right in the background she runs away with the sieve filled with water. In the margin under the show is a text in Latin, numbered at the bottom right: 5. The print is part of a series of prints that depict events from Roman history. paper engraving (story of) the Vestal virgin Tuccia

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