…; collection Jonathan Richardson I (1667-1745), London;{His mount, according to L. 2183.} his son, Jonathan Richardson II (1694-1771), London (L. 2170); ? his sale, London (A. Langford), 5 February 1772 sqq. (drawings not specified); …; collection Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92), London (L. 2364); ? his sale, London (A.C. de Poggi), 26 May 1794, one of the drawings in Album QQ, nos. 960-85, or Album PP, nos. 987-1009 (drawings not specified); or his sale, London (H. Phillips), 5 March 1798 sqq. (drawings not specified); …; collection Thomas Thane (1782-1837), London (L. 2420); ? his sale, London (Sotheby’s), 25 May 1846 sqq., possibly no. 846, as Rembrandt (‘Three other studies, pen and bistre’); …; purchased from Frederick Leverton Harris (1864-1926), London, as Rembrandt, through the mediation of the dealer F. Lippmann, by Dr Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863-1930), The Hague, 1910;{Hofstede de Groot notes, KB.} by whom donated to the museum, 1913, but kept in usufruct; transferred to the museum (L. 2228), 1930{This drawing was added to his 1906 bequest in exchange for a drawing not considered to be by Rembrandt; Hofstede de Groot 1906, no. 1296.}
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