He had lung problems for which there was no
cure at the time. He went to Margate to benefit from the sea air and died
there.
He was only 47 years old.
Just as C. S. Lewis’s Narnia stories wouldn’t
be the same without Pauline Baynes’s illustrations, or Lewis Carroll’s Alice
books without the pictures of John Tenniel, Sherlock Holmes wouldn’t be the
same without Sidney Paget’s contributions.
The deerstalker cap and Inverness cape
associated with Holmes were his invention.
If I could have just one of his
illustrations, it would be this one:
