sentences:  Similar chickens are depicted in sixteenth-century paintings in the Vatican Museums and the Galleria Borghese in Rome, and in Florence and Paris.In about 1863 or 1877, a certain Cephas Dawes of Dedham, Massachusetts, captain of the "Frutiere", was loading oranges in Sicily and bought a number of chickens to provide meat on his homeward journey.Some of these continued to lay well during the voyage, and were kept for eggs instead.