An etching of Diogenes with his lantern, walking towards a heap of ruined artefacts and three creatures huddled next to it; behind them a terminus of Pan leans against a stone plinth surmounted by a carved pedestal. Signed, lower left. Inscribed with a four-line dedication to Nicolo Simonelli, lower centre; inscribed, lower left; Con licenza de Superiori; inscribed, lower right; Si stampano in Roma per Gio Domenico Rossi alla Pace al Insegna d Parigi. The Greek philosopher searches with his lighted lamp for honesty and integrity among humanity, but all he finds are embodiments of man’s base nature – ruined monuments, an ape (symbolising Lust), a tortoise (Sloth), and an owl (representing Night, and thus Ignorance).