“I found Sherlock Holmes half asleep” — illustration to Arthur Conan Doyle's “A Case of Identity” by Sidney Paget

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I found Sherlock Holmes half asleep

Sidney Paget

1891

Photographic reproduction of watercolor

Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “A Case of Identity,” p. 48. See below for passage illustrated

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Passage illustrated

I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the chemical work which was so dear to him.

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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