Roman British Priestesses. One in ancient style with bare breasts and white linen gown with girdle of brass, and one in later Roman tunic with zigzag borders over a long petticoat. In the background are the temples of Minerva and Sul-Minerva at Bath. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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