…; ? collection Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), London;{According to the catalogue for the 1891 Ashley sale.} ? his sale, London (A.C. de Poggi), 26 May 1794, one of the drawings in Album QQ, nos. 960-85, or Album RR, nos. 987-1009 (drawings not specified); or his sale, London (H. Phillips), 5 March 1798 sqq. (drawings not specified); ...; collection Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston (1739-1802), Broadlands, near Romsey, Hampshire, and London;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} by descent to the Rt. Hon. Evelyn Ashley (1836-1908), Broadlands; his sale, London (Christie´s), 24 April 1891, no. 108, as Rembrandt van Rijn, or no. 110, as Rembrandt van Rijn, with two other drawings; …; collection Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913), Edinburgh and London;{According to an inscription on the drawing.} from whom acquired, as Rembrandt van Rijn, with seven other drawings, through the mediation of the dealer T. Agnew, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1901;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1906, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930
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