Creator
H. M. Brock
Title
The Hound of the Baskervilles Original cover artwork
Date
1912
Subject
Gouache and crayon on paper
Description
H.M. Brock (1875–1960) was one of a trio of illustrators, the others being Sidney Paget and Frederic Dorr Steele, who put an artistic stamp on the Sherlock Holmes stories that survives to this day. His gigantic hound is truly hellish, its slavering tongue and muzzle glowing through the fogbound moor.
A prolific English artist—one of four artist brothers who all shared a studio— Brock contributed to Punch magazine, produced posters for D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, created artwork for scores of books, and illustrated the Strand Magazine appearance of the Sherlockian story “The Adventure of the Red Circle.”
Format
13¼ × 9¼ in