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Beggars and Street Characters

Zhou Chen

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a long, horizontal scroll painting titled "Beggars and Street Characters" by Zhou Chen. The scroll consists of a series of connected panels on beige paper with darker edges. The leftmost panel contains dense black text on a beige background. The second panel from the left has black and red text on a beige background. The central panels depict 16 small, grayscale illustrations of people in various poses, including a man carrying a basket on his back, a woman holding a child, and a man with a cane. The rightmost panel features black text on a beige background. The entire scroll has a dark brown border at the top and bottom.

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900 × 68 px
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