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1925. Fine. Original watercolor and pen and ink drawing on paper, mounted onto card (drawing measures 6 3/8 x 7 5/8 inches, paper sheet 8 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches). Verso of card with: "To be returned to A. Rackham | Insurance value 30 pounds" written in pencil. Housed in gilt frame with “Old Church Galleries” sticker on back. Additional four provenance labels underneath the rear brown framing paper. The first reads: “38. Izaak Walton.” Second is a sticker of authenticity: “F.R. It is important that this label should never be destroyed. The evidence it bears of the registered stock number has in the past proved to be of very great value for purposes of identification and authenticity. Artist: Arthur Rackham; Title: Isaac Walton; Registered Number D. 13846 6 ½ x 7 1/2” with an additional smudged area, larger sticker from “Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd. The Leicester Galleries.” A fourth sticker identifies the piece in a December 1935 exhibition of Rackham’s work, with…