Sidney Paget's

                                      Sherlock Holmes
In a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind where it is always 1895
                                                                                                                                                       V.  Starrett


  The images of Sherlock Holmes as drawn by Sidney Paget have become as much a part of the canon's appeal as the text by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.   In all Paget drew 537 sketches that appeared with the Holmes stories in the Strand Magazine.   Sidney Paget was not the  first choice of the editors who thought they were commissioning his brother Walter a much better known artist who had illustrated Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe. He did not always please Doyle who remarked that Paget had made Holmes much handsomer than he intended. 
     The independence of Paget in interpreting the stories through his images often leads to a subtlesub text that may at times be with odds with traditional interpretation of the stories.  The complex relationship between the Doyle text and the Paget sketches are the subject of the  series of  essays linked below.
     This page is under intermittent construction as time and imagination permits.  For comments and questions


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Paget's Drawings And Essays On Their Relationship To The Story

  A Scandal In Bohemia
  The Adventure of the Resident Patient
  The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
  The Adventure of the Naval Treaty
  The Adventure of the Final Problem
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The Adventure of the Empty House
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
  The Adventure of the Gold Prince-Nez

  The Adventure of The Man With the Twisted Lip
  The Adventure of Silver Blaze
The Adventure of the Yellow Face
 

  The Hound of the Baskervilles


 
 

© text Dennis Lawrence


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