Sotheby’s will auction an original Harry Potter watercolor alongside works by literary greats like Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Sotheby's June 26 auction of Thomas Taylor's watercolor illustration for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is estimated to sell for $400,000-$600,000. Accessibility links.

The original illustration for the first edition of J.K. Rowling’s 1997 novel “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” has sold for a record-breaking $1.9 million.