For elements not found in the Strand Magazine illustrations I used reference photos of Victorian era items. The books were not illustrated, but the flat at 221B Baker Street flat began to take shape in my imagination.

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There are other details that seem impossible to not notice: the fact that, despite Holmes and Watson being clearly hetersexual, their relationship is nevertheless odd, that Holmes was a high-functioning autistic (Asperger's, my guess), and that Watson was a terrible doctor, seeing as how he treated every patient with brandy regardless of their ailment. We know from several stories that the sitting room is in the front of the building and has a clear view of Baker Street street.Of course, these "other tenants" are not mentioned once in the sixty stories. Can you imagine the trouble, the danger and the complaints that would arise with sharing these premises with strangers? Holmes would think nothing of taking his pistol and firing one hundred shots into a wall. What neighbor would tolerate that?

illustrated Sherlock Holmes : 37 short stories The classic illustrated Sherlock Holmes : 37 short stories

The curtain rail in front of the bow window in The Mazarin Stone is supported by the wall above an arch. I have learnt how to articulate sentences in a good English which would have been impossible if I read the Bengali translation. And this English can hardly be found in today's American version of English, not sure if it is in British English now. So-called globalization has affected thus harshly the varieties of languages. Already movements for localisation has started. The illustration has also been displayed in an exhibition in Italy. The photo above on the right came from a video promoting the exhibition.

Sidney Paget, the Artist Who Illustrated the Sherlock Holmes Stories

A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “[T]he heath-covered countryside, with the glowing clumps of flowering gorse, seemed all the more beautiful to eyes which were weary of the duns and drabs and slate-greys of London. Holmes and I walked along the broad, sandy road inhaling the fresh morning air, and rejoicing in the music of the birds and the fresh breath of the spring. From a rise of the road on the shoulder of Crooksbury Hill, we could see the grim Hall bristling out from amidst the ancient oaks, which, old as they were, were still younger than the building which they surrounded.” Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. Holmes was still, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in following out those clues and clearing up those mysteries which had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. Davenport, Emma Anne Georgina, with frontispiece by D. H. Friston, Our Birthdays, and how to Improve Them, Griffith and Farran, 1864, online at books.google.com, accessed 6 December 2008 But I was also growing into a modern girl, one who had big ideas about becoming someone, and doing something big in this world.

The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: 37 short stories

He was more interested in writing historical pieces, and about the after-life. (We won’t go there!) On visiting West's fiancée, she tells Holmes that West had something on his mind for the last week or so of his life. He commented to her on how easily a traitor could get hold of "the secret" and how much a foreign agent would pay for it. Then, on the night in question, as the two of them were walking near his office, on the way to the theatre, he dashed off and did not return. An unframed picture of Henry Ward Beecher: The Resident Patient and The Adventure of the Cardboard Box Conan Doyle fathered five children. Two with his first wife—Mary Louise (28 January 1889 – 12 June 1976), and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as Kingsley (15 November 1892 – 28 October 1918). With his second wife he had three children—Denis Percy Stewart (17 March 1909 – 9 March 1955), second husband in 1936 of Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani (circa 1910 – 19 February 1987; former sister-in-law of Barbara Hutton); Adrian Malcolm (19 November 1910–3 June 1970) and Jean Lena Annette (21 December 1912–18 November 1997). I’ve been thinking of Doyle’s spiritualism lately and what Holmes would have made of it all. I can’t help feeling that there might have been words between the two of them and tuts and the slow shaking of the head. That is, I sometimes wonder if Holmes, the character, was more necessary, in a sense, than Doyle the writer. I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, but I think it might be at least a little true too.I created this version completely from scratch using an iPad Pro and an Apple pencil in a free vector illustration program called Vectornator.