Sidney Paget, Sherlock Holmes & Watson from The Greek Interpreter, 1893. From the time the Sherlock Holmes stories first appeared in Strand magazine, they have never gone out of print. Sherlock’s ...

26.9 x 18.6 cm. (10.6 x 7.3 in.) Original illustration of "The Death of Sherlock Holmes," 1893 Original pen and ink and wash drawing heightened with white of The Death of Sherlock Holmes (269 x 186 mm ...

In 1891, The Strand Magazine hired young Sidney Paget to illustrate Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective tales. His moody ink-wash defined Holmes. This post is from Observer Short List—an email of ...

Sidney Paget created iconic scenes of Sherlock Holmes for The Strand, such as in this scene from "A Scandal in Bohemia." (UIG via Getty Images) I am a Sherlock Holmes fan. Arthur Conan Doyle’s ...

Sidney Paget's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 37 USD to 384,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2005 the record price ...

The illustration recreated for Enola Holmes features Cavill without a hat, but in Paget’s illustration for “The Solitary Cyclist,” Holmes was drawn wearing his famous deerstalker cap.

The three most indelible Sherlocks—Paget’s original illustrations, Basil Rathbone in the 1930s, and Cumberbatch—all wear contemporary dress, yet they are all unmistakably the same character.

The iconic image of Holmes wearing his deerstalker cap and Inverness cape came from the illustrations of artist Sidney Paget (1860-1908). Pictured: Benedict Cumberbatch in the hit series Sherlock ...

Paget produced 201 Sherlock Holmes's illustrations between 1891 and 1893 and a further 155 between 1901 and 1904. But Paget had been sent the commission for the artwork by mistake.

And like Basil Rathbone before him, he closely resembles the character — the dark hair slicked back, the aquiline nose, the lanky physique — as drawn in Sidney Paget’s illustrations that ...