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Earliest pictorial representation
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.