# - m - Rowling, J.K.

270 by 160mm., pencil drawing, signed and dated in biro "JKRowling | 1999" in lower centre, framed and glazed; together with autograph letter signed ("JKRowling") providing provenance in which the author expresses delight that the picture has "gone to such a good home", declines a lunch invitation, and hopes that one of her readers "likes book 4 as much" (folio, "By Owl Post" headed stationery, undated)

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a unique insight into the imaginative world of j.k. rowling showing the author's own depiction of her characters.

J.K. Rowling produced this fine pencil drawing for the BBC charity Children in Need in 1999.