'Unknown' Michelangelo set to fetch £8m

Art experts claim a previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo which lay unrecognised for more than 250 years could fetch up to £8m at auction.

'Unknown' Michelangelo set to fetch £8m

Art experts claim a previously unknown drawing by Michelangelo which lay unrecognised for more than 250 years could fetch up to £8m at auction.

The pen-and-brown-ink study of a Mourning Woman was found in a scrapbook during a routine inventory at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, eight years ago.

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