The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

combined 1.png
combined.png

Creator

Frederic Dorr Steele

Title

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Date

1908

Subject

Complete set of original artwork

Description

There are only two Sherlock Holmes stories for which all of the Frederick Dorr Steele illustrations are known, and “Wisteria Lodge” is the only one for which all seven original illustrations are together in a single collection. They were among a group of 22 Sherlockian originals sold by Steele in 1922 for $300 to Dr. Gray Chandler Briggs, an early Sherlockian and longtime admirer of Steele’s work.

Briggs never displayed the cover illustration for the story because his wife found it too spooky. I felt a special bond with my predecessor in collecting when my younger daughter was similarly distressed by the same drawing; as a consequence it hung for years with a dishtowel draped over its frame.

Format

Collier’s Weekly