"Although there is not any record of precisely when the drawing entered the collection at Castle Howard, it was in all probability acquired at the 1747 London auction of Richardson's celebrated drawings collection, where Henry Howard, fourth Earl of Carlisle, is understood to have been an active buyer." At the time Sotheby's described the find as "the most serious Michelangelo find in living memory ; like finding part of the Holy Grail".
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