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Sidney Paget's Missing / Unconfirmed Original Art

12 July 2010

Some Sidney Paget original drawings survived until the 1970s and 1980s but are now missing. They have not been reported for at least 25 years and the Census of Sidney Paget Original Drawings and Artwork lists the owner as "not known."

Please check the photos below, and contact me if you have any information about the original drawings. As always I will keep owners and source's identity private upon request. Your information will help maintain a record of this rare material and make it likelier that the original will be preserved.

Missing Sidney Paget Original Sherlock Holmes Drawings

More than 300 of Paget's original drawings for the Holmes stories are probably lost forever. The originals of the four Strand Magazine illustrations shown below survived but their condition and location are unknown. Please contact me if you know their location.



"He held it up"		"There he sat upon a stone"
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face"		The Hound of the Baskervilles (Chapter XII)

Last Reported: 1975, Adrian Conan Doyle Estate		Last Reported: 1983, Paget family



"I'll fill a vacant peg, then"		"Holmes examined it critically"
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man"		"The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"

Last Reported: 1975, Adrian Conan Doyle Estate		Last Reported: 1975, Adrian Conan Doyle Estate

Other Paget Original Artwork with Information Needed

Reports are needed for other Paget drawings as well. The first, from a Holmes story, almost certainly still survives since it was sold in 2004 for a very high price. The others are from non-Holmes stories and have not been reported for many years.

Please contact me if you have any information about these or other original drawings. I keep owners and source's identity private upon request.

Sidney Paget frontispiece for the Final Problem

"The death of Sherlock Holmes"

"The Adventure of the Final Problem."

Last Reported: November 2004, sold at the Maurice F. Neville auction at Sotheby's New York

Sidney Paget drawing for The Tragedy of the Korosko

" 'Isn't it a sacrilege?' said the Oxford Man"

The Tragedy of the Korosko (Chapter II) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Last Reported: 1975, Adrian Conan Doyle Estate, offered by The House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman) in Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockiana: 76 Items.

Sidney Paget drawing for Terence

"She stood with her back to the door"

Terence (Chapter XXVIII ) by Bithia Mary Croker.

Last Reported: April 1987, sold at the John Michael Gibson auction at California Book Auction Galleries in San Francisco.

See the Census of Sidney Paget Original Drawings and Artwork for all of his reported originals.

Other Rare Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle Material

This website also has a census of Beeton's Christmas Annual 1887 with the first Sherlock Holmes story, and lots of information on Conan Doyle manuscripts.

Return to the Sidney Paget Census

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