Caption:
William Hooker Gillette as Sherlock Holmes, the famous gentleman detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle. In smoking jacket and slippers, smoking a briar pipe. William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager, 1853-1937. From a photographic portrait, 1899. Colour printing of a hand-coloured illustration based on a monochrome photograph from George Newness Players of the Day, London, 1905.