Sherlock Holmes was standing smiling at me across my study desk

Sidney Paget

1893

Photographic reproduction of ink or watercolor on paper

Illustration for Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Adventure of the Empty House,” p. 452.

Sherlock Holmes returns from the dead.

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