How does this artwork elucidate its Iconographic description?
Three-quarter length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I holding a sieve, with a globe in the left background and the royal coat of arms on the right. The sieve represents her self-identification as the "Virgin Queen" by association with Tuccia, the Roman Vestal Virgin who proved her virginity by carrying water in a sieve.
Vestal Virgin Tuccia sieve coat of arms Queen Elizabeth I Elizabeth I