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3 giorni fa · Illustration of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget. n of John H. Watson, better known as Dr Watson, which came from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Watson and of his talented, sometimes difficult, friend, Sherlock Holmes.
2 giorni fa · Portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget, 1904 Doyle struggled to find a publisher. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet , was written in three weeks when he was 27 and was accepted for publication by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, which gave Doyle £25 (equivalent to £2,900 in 2019) in ...
3 giorni fa · Sidney Paget. The Hound of the Baskervilles Original artwork for The Strand Magazine. London. George Newnes. January 1901. Gouache, charcoal, and crayon on paper. From its very beginning, The Hound of the Baskervilles serves up legends, sightings, and finally the deeds of an eerie, glowing, murderous creature in the Dartmoor wilds.
3 giorni fa · Paget's popular image of Holmes, originally unveiled in The Strand Magazine, ... Image: Sidney Paget (1860–1908) You may also like: Celebs in quarantine: Self-surgery and beyond. Shutterstock ...
4 giorni fa · Gillette introduced the curved meerschaum pipe (it is thought to have been easier on the actor’s jaw during a long performance), and Sidney Paget the deerstalker (or “fore-and-aft”) cap—it was de rigueur for country living—in more than one illustration for The Strand of Holmes at work on his investigations in the country.
- Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Conan Doyle did model Holmes’s methods and man...
- Sherlock Holmes’s success as a “consulting detective” comes from his uncanny ability to gather evidence based upon his honed skills of observation...
- Claiming that Sherlock Holmes distracted him “from better things,” Arthur Conan Doyle in 1893 famously attempted to kill him off in the story “The...
- Sherlock Holmes’s greatest nemesis is Professor James Moriarty whom Holmes considers the “Napoleon of Crime.” The character of Professor Moriarty r...
- Sherlock Holmes never marries anyone in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories. The only woman whom Holmes ever holds in high regard is Irene Adler—...
3 giorni fa · It starts as follows: “In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to see the loom of the opposite houses.” Love that use of the word […]
2 giorni fa · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Dad’s Army. on May 23 2024. On 4 August, 1914, Conan Doyle organised a meeting in his local town of Crowborough in Sussex. Conan Doyle proposed setting up a local civilian volunteer reserve.
