“Then he stood before the fire” — illustration to Arthur Conan Doyle's “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Sidney Paget

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Then he stood before the fire

Sidney Paget

1891

Photographic reproduction of watercolor

Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “A Scandal in Bohemia,” p. 12.

Passage illustrated: “His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular introspective fashion.”

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Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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