Sidney Paget

Sidney Edward Paget (October 4, 1860 - January 28, 1908) was a British illustrator of the Victorian era, who did a great deal of work for The Strand magazine. Today, Paget is best known as the creator of the popular image of Sherlock Holmes; it is said that Paget based Holmes' appearance on that of his own brother. He is also credited with giving the first deerstalker cap to Holmes, a detail that never featured in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's books.

All together, Sidney Paget did some 356 published drawings for 37 short stories and one novel (The Hound of the Baskervilles).

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