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Giuseppe Maria Crespi

Plate 8: Bertoldino, enraged by the croaking frogs, throws his strongbox into the fish pond, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

1705–15
Etching
23 × 14.9 cm (9.1 × 5.9 in)

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