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After studying at several art schools in England, Sidney Paget drew for the British magazine The Strand. By far his best-known work came when he began designing the illustrations for the Sherlock Holmes stories. Sidney, whose older brother Walter was also an illustrator, only got this incredibly successful commission through a mix-up. The magazine actually wanted to send the order to his brother Walter, who was more successful at the time. Since they didn't know his first name, the letter ended up with Sidney. Rumor has it that Sidney designed the detective for it after Walter's likeness. Walter himself had always called these rumors made up. Whether modeled after his brother or not, Sidney drew a number of sketches after receiving the misdirected letter. When he took them to the publisher, these so convinced the publishers that they appointed Sidney as the illustrator of Sherlock Holmes - even though they had actually requested his brother. After Sidney's death, Walter Paget did work on the detective originally assigned to him. He illustrated the Sherlock Holmes story "The Dying Detective".
Even though Sidney only illustrated the first story by chance, he was personally requested by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, for all subsequent ones. For Sidney's pictures had a massive influence on Sherlock Holmes as we know him today. The checkered peaked cap, which nowadays can't be missing in any Holmes film, only came into being thanks to Paget's own fondness for this cap. Sir Doyle mentioned the cap only once as "an ear flapped traveling cap" in a story. Paget kept his illustrations in black and white to emphasize the somber mood of the stories. The deep shadowy tone of his drawings thus gave Sir Doyle's texts an even grimmer sting. In this way, Sidney Paget probably also inspired many American detective films for their gritty setting. Most certainly he influenced every film version of Sherlock Holmes with it.
Sidney Paget's work was instrumental in shaping the shape and look of Sherlock Holmes and continues to influence it to this day. Sidney Paget himself appeared in ironic form in a Christmas special as a character creating the illustrations for Watson's Sherlock stories. In it, Mrs. Hudson criticizes his dark style, which would make her house dingy. Watson replies that the illustrator is out of his depth. He himself had grown a mustache so that readers would recognize him. In addition to Sherlock Holmes, Sidney Paget also breathed life into Arthur Morrison's detective Martin Hewitt with his drawings.
After studying at several art schools in England, Sidney Paget drew for the British magazine The Strand. By far his best-known work came when he began designing the illustrations for the Sherlock Holmes stories. Sidney, whose older brother Walter was also an illustrator, only got this incredibly successful commission through a mix-up. The magazine actually wanted to send the order to his brother Walter, who was more successful at the time. Since they didn't know his first name, the letter ended up with Sidney. Rumor has it that Sidney designed the detective for it after Walter's likeness. Walter himself had always called these rumors made up. Whether modeled after his brother or not, Sidney drew a number of sketches after receiving the misdirected letter. When he took them to the publisher, these so convinced the publishers that they appointed Sidney as the illustrator of Sherlock Holmes - even though they had actually requested his brother. After Sidney's death, Walter Paget did work on the detective originally assigned to him. He illustrated the Sherlock Holmes story "The Dying Detective".
Even though Sidney only illustrated the first story by chance, he was personally requested by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes, for all subsequent ones. For Sidney's pictures had a massive influence on Sherlock Holmes as we know him today. The checkered peaked cap, which nowadays can't be missing in any Holmes film, only came into being thanks to Paget's own fondness for this cap. Sir Doyle mentioned the cap only once as "an ear flapped traveling cap" in a story. Paget kept his illustrations in black and white to emphasize the somber mood of the stories. The deep shadowy tone of his drawings thus gave Sir Doyle's texts an even grimmer sting. In this way, Sidney Paget probably also inspired many American detective films for their gritty setting. Most certainly he influenced every film version of Sherlock Holmes with it.
Sidney Paget's work was instrumental in shaping the shape and look of Sherlock Holmes and continues to influence it to this day. Sidney Paget himself appeared in ironic form in a Christmas special as a character creating the illustrations for Watson's Sherlock stories. In it, Mrs. Hudson criticizes his dark style, which would make her house dingy. Watson replies that the illustrator is out of his depth. He himself had grown a mustache so that readers would recognize him. In addition to Sherlock Holmes, Sidney Paget also breathed life into Arthur Morrison's detective Martin Hewitt with his drawings.
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.jpg "Then he stood by the fire: scene from the Sherlock Holmes mystery A Scandal in Bohemia by Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Something Like Fear Sprang Up In The Young Lady")
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.jpg "Silver Blaze: Sydney Paget")
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.jpg "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "I Will Wish You All A Very Good Night by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "See What My Wife Found In Its Crop, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The maid showed us the boots: scene from the Sherlock Holmes story The Boscombe Valley Mystery, by Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "A Covert Joke by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Holmes Lashed Furiously by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Holmes Shook His Head Gravely, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "A Very Seedy Hard Felt Hat by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Teaching the Young Idea by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The War in the Sudan, the Fight of Sunday, 22 March, at McNeill")
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.jpg "Colonel Lysander Stark by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Battle of Colenso - The last desperate attempt to save the guns of the 14th and 66th batteries by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "I Clapped a Pistol to His Head by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Adventure of Silver Blaze, Holmes questioning a suspect by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Have Mercy! He Shrieked by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Taking Up A Glowing Cinder With The Tongs by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Battle of Dubba, 24th March 1843 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Statue of Professor Thomas Henry Huxley in the Great Hall of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Mexican Lancers Charged The Illinois Soldiers by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Get Away From Here Before It Is Too Late, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The British in Burmah, a Pooay at the Palace, Mandalay, before Lady Dufferin and Burmese Ladies by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "A Picture of Offended Dignity by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "You Are The Very Man by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Scene from The Adventure of the Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "A Deserter by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Sensational Water Drama at the Hippodrome, London by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Burst into Convulsive Sobbing, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Which of You Is Holmes by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "A Very Seedy Hard Felt Hat by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Dressed as a Common Loafer by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Her Face Blanched With Terror by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "With a Look of Grief and Despair, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "I Rushed to the Door, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Lord Robert St. Simon by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Napier, In Full Uniform, Was Borne Into Hyderabad in a Magnificent Palanquin by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Not a Word to a Soul, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "You Villain! Said He. Where")
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.jpg "There, Said He, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Broke The Seal And Glanced Over The Contents by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Hurled The Blacksmith Over A Parapet by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "She Was Ejected By The Butler And The Footman, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Just Read It Out To Me by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Roberts Has His Charger Shot Through the Head at Bulandshair by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Made Neither Sound Nor Motion, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Some Woman Came Talking About Lord St. Simon by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Adventure of the Final Problem, Strand Magazine, London, 1893 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Return of Sherlock by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Rebellion in the North West Territory of Canada, Indian Prisoners by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Oh! I Am So Frightened! I Panted by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Adventure of Yellow Face by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Bowed Solemnly to Both of Us by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "At My Cry He Dropped It by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Running Up. I Blew Its Brains Out, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "She Raised Her Veil, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Storming Firket, illustration from Cassell")
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.jpg "A House On Fire by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Gentleman In The Few Handed It Up To Her by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Lieutenant Roberts Saving His Battery Under the Walls of Delhi by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Roberts Finds Nicholson Mortally Wounded Under the Walls of Delhi by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Cut At Me by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Adventure of Yellow Face by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "She Went Straight To Her Uncle by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Roberts Wins the Victoria Cross by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "He Unwound The Handkerchief, And Held Out His Hand, 1892 by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Capital by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "I Am So Delighted That You Have Come by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "Well, Look At This by Sidney Paget")
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.jpg "The Death of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget")
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