The Vestal Virgin Tuccia, c. 1595

Not on View

series Title

Famous Roman Women (plate 5)

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut to plate): 21.8 x 28.2 cm (8 9/16 x 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 305, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1983.106.4

Artists / Makers

Theodor Galle (artist) Flemish, c. 1571 - 1633

Jan van der Straet (artist after) Flemish, 1523 - 1605

Philip Galle (publisher) Netherlandish, 1537 - 1612

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in image, in plate: Ioan Strad. inven. / Theodor. Galle / Sculpsit.; lower right, in image, in plate: Phls. Galle excud.; in margin below image, in plate: Da pater illaesi testem, Tyberine, pudoris / Te mibi, Vestalemque tuo de gurgite nympham / Arguat unda ream cribro contenta, nefando / Delatam indicio, prius haec non visa ferentem / Pontifices portenta foro mirentur, et omnis / Posteritas, purgetque sue se Tucia cribro.; at lower right corner of bottom margin, in plate: 5

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1993: The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (Johannes Stradanus, Marjolein Leesberg, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. 305, ii/iii