According to Dingwall in "The Girdle of chastity", one of the earliest pictorial representations is the woodcut published first in the 1572 Bale edition of Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of Fools). A woodcut illustrating a poem shows to the left in the foreground a fool pouring water into a well, while to his left is a nude woman seated upon a block and partly hidden behind a curtain. Around her waist is a belt and in her left hand she holds a chain from which is suspended a stout padlock. In other editions of the work the chastity belt is not shown.