The best of them is “The Late Sherlock Holmes” (1893), which reveals that ... be sparing as these were bestowed on him by Sidney Paget, the stories’ original illustrator, and never mentioned ...

In “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,” he’s wildly smart and observant ... the lanky physique — as drawn in Sidney Paget’s illustrations that accompanied Doyle’s stories when they ...

Paget created around 356 published illustrations for the Sherlock Holmes series. His image of Holmes’s appearance was so established that later illustrators had to attempt to imitate his style.

What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I for one almost always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper.