Beggars and Street Characters
A long Ming handscroll of ink and light color on paper lines up a procession of ragged beggars and street figures, each shown walking, leaning or resting. Calligraphy columns and a title label run along the left and right ends of the scroll.
Look closer: A small dog sits beside one of the walking figures near the center of the scroll.
- Artist
- Zhou Chen
- Date
- 1516
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and light color on paper
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3400 × 255 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1516).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund