Walter Paget

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Walter Paget

Walter Stanley Paget (* 1863 ; † 1935 ) was a British illustrator. For his work he was honored with the gold medal of the Royal Academy of Arts .

Walter Paget was the youngest of the three brothers ( Henry Marriott , Sidney and Walter) and like them he illustrated books and magazines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He used to draw "Whale Paget". He worked for The Sphere (during the Boer War ), Illustrated London News , The Strand Magazine , among others .

Walter Paget made a name for himself as a book illustrator, although he is described as the least talented of the three brothers. His drawings can be found in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson (in Treasure Island from 1899), Henry Rider Haggard ( King Solomon's Treasury from 1895), especially in many foreign-language editions of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe . After Sidney Paget's death, Walter Paget also illustrated the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" by Conan Doyle ( December 1913 issue in Strand Magazine ).

A mistake with his brother Sidney Paget is known from his work as a book illustrator . The editor of Strand Magazine , Sir George Newnes (1851-1910), wanted Walter Paget to illustrate six short stories about Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle. Since he was still unknown at the time, his brother Sidney Paget received the letter with the assignment and carried it out.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Philip V. Allingham, A Biographical Sketch of Illustrator Walter Paget (1863-1935), online: www.victorianweb.org , English, accessed May 5, 2010
  2. The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes; Castle Books, 1976, p. 6

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