“The driver pointed with his whip hand. “Baskertville Hall,’ said he.” — illustration to Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Hound of the Baskervilles” by Sidney Paget

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The driver pointed with his whip hand. “Baskertville Hall,” said he.

Sidney Paget

1891

Photographic reproduction of ink or watercolor on paper

Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” p. 366.

See below for passage illustrated

This dramatically lit scene in the open countryside differs from most of Paget's illustrations of other stories set in London. The dramatic dark images in illustrations Paget created for “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” include several very powerful, very dark plates.

Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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Passage illustrated

We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands. The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders. Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline. Suddenly we looked down into a cuplike depression, patched with stunted oaks and firs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip.

"Baskerville Hall," said he.

Bibliography

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes. “Reproduced from the original publication in The Strand Magazine with the classic illustrations by Sidney Paget.” Edison, New Jersey: Castle Books, [after 1954]. Internet Archive version of a copy donated by Friends of the San Francisco Library. Web.

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