Title: Marcolfa Discovers BertoldinoTrying to Hatch Eggs (recto); Sketch of Bertoldino (verso)
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1709–10
Artist:  Giuseppe Maria Crespi 
Artist bio: Italian, Bologna 1665–1747 Bologna
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Red chalk (recto); faint black chalk sketch of Bertoldino (verso)
Dimensions: 8-7/8 x 5-3/4 in.  (22.6 x 14.6 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Children, term: Women