Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Ugo da Carpi|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
Artist bio: Italian, Carpi ca. 1480–1532 Bologna|Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore
Artist role: Artist|Artist
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: ca. 1527–30
Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in gray-green ink
Dimensions: Image: 18 11/16 x 13 5/8 in. (47.5 x 34.6 cm)
Mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession year: 1917
Tags: Chickens|Diogenes|Reading