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.
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.