#the strand

[thefugitivesaint]

Alfred Pearse (1855-1933), 'The Horror of Studley Grange', ''The Strand'', Vol. 7, 1894 Source

#Alfred Pearse #english artists #the strand #the strand magazine #vintage illustration #vintage art

[vkelleyart]

Surprise!

I have been cobbling this painting together in private for about a month (turns out Kensington Palace is rather complicated to draw), before giving the finished poster to Casey McQuiston last night as a pub-day gift for RED WHITE & ROYAL BLUE COLLECTOR’S EDITION—a “two homes side-by-side” mashup of canon and cinema featuring Nicholas Galitzine as Henry and Taylor Zakhar Perez as Alex. (Suffice to say, I can’t wait to see them inhabit these roles when the film launches next year!)

To those who came to The Strand last night for the event, thank you so much for your incredibly warm reception. Meeting Casey in person was an absolute dream come true and words fail to express my joy at having brought my skills to the endpapers of a book I adore so much. Apart from being hilarious, brilliant, and genuinely kind, they also happen to give AMAZING hugs:

I hope you’ve had a chance to pick up your copy of the book and that you love Henry’s POV chapter as much as I did (hello waterworks!). Let me know what you think of it in the comments, and just know how endlessly grateful I am to all of you who found my art and liked it enough to share, comment, and shower it with hearts. I’m forever in your debt. 💙❤️💙❤️

#rwrb collector’s edition #rwrb #red white and royal blue #first prince #alex and henry #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #casey mcquiston #The Strand #Book Signing

[jabbage]

I bought a Strand Magazine from the 1890s this week, and got to discover that a about a third of it is advertisements, and a significant chunk of those are just for cocoa.

#sherlock holmes #the strand #dr watson #john watson #comics #jabbageart

[bestnoncannonship]

HELLO NAUGHTY FANDOM FRIENDS ITS FERAL CHRISTMAS TREE TIME!!!

You've seen the Good Omens Tree:

You've seen the Merlin Tree:

This year we have the

SHERLOCK HOLMES TREE!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Is this not the perfect Christmas tree for Christmas with your queerplatonic life partner in your strange little house? I think it is. Now our favorite interpretation of Sherlock Holmes is the Granada with Jeremy Brett. So it's his visage and that of his longtime Watson, Edward Hardwicke, who top the tree this year.....with miniature festive versions of their top hat and bowler hat:

Some of the Ornaments are just things that come up often in Holmes's world. Like Holmes's Violin, a Train, a Magnifying Glass, Various Vials of Science and Tobacco Ash, Smoking Pipes, and Watson's Revolver.

Others are references to certain cases; The Severed Ear from "The Cardboard Box", Mary's Pearls and Poison Darts from "Sign of the Four", the French Gold from "The Red Headed League", an Orange with Five Pips from "The Five Orange Pips", the Triangulated Tree from "The Muskgrave Ritual", the Big Dog from "Hound of the Baskervilles", the Noose from "The Resident Patient", the Bicyle from "The Solitary Cyclist", "Silver Blaze"'s horseshoe, A "Blue Carbuncle", Irene Adler's Sovereign from "A Scandal in Bohemia", and a garland of Dancing Men from "The Dancing Men" that spells out the Lyrics to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".

I've also included the crest of Mycroft's Diogennes Club with their mascot (a plucked chicken) and their motto (Shut up ...but in Latin), and a skull....because it seemed appropriate.

And of course......there are plenty of copies of the magazine where Watson immortalized their adventures together:

Merry Christmas!

#Christmas #Christmas tree #sherlock holmes #sherlock fandom #john watson #sherlock fanart #granada holmes #jeremy brett #edward hardwicke #arthur conan doyle #johnlock #mycroft holmes #the strand #acd holmes #acd canon #acd johnlock #acd watson #the adventures of sherlock holmes #the casebook of Sherlock holmes #sherlock #irene adler #mary morstan #the blue carbuncle #the solitary cyclist #the hound of the baskervilles #the diogenes club #the dancing men #19th century #granada johnlock #watsholmes

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

The National Gallery and Saint Martin's Church in London - Giuseppe De Nittis // The Strand, London - Arthur Edmund Grimshaw // South London Forever - Florence + the Machine // Mermaids - Florence + the Machine

#london #the strand #national gallery london #giuseppe de nittis #arthur grimshaw #south london forever #high as hope #mermaids #mermaids song #mermaids florence #mermaids florence + the machine #dance fever #florence + the machine #florence and the machine #fatm #web weaving #art #art history #lyrics #lyric art

[libertyreads]

I finally made it to a beloved book reader's mecca.

#the strand #purchases were made #booklr #books #bookstagram #bookish #book #goodreads #bookstore #bookhaul to come #book haul to come

[dapetty]

Original drawing by Sidney Paget for ACD Sherlock series in The Strand. Benedict Cumberbatch in similar pose.

#bbc sherlock #the strand #sherlock holmes #sidney paget #benedict cumberbatch #arthur conan doyle #sherlock art #public domain

[mrdiaperboyofficial]

Ein Tag am Strand und natürlich mit Windel 🥰

#windeln #diaper bulge #community #windel #the strand #beachwear #relaxing #diaper community #ab dl diaper #nature #oostende

[ash-elizabeth-art]

The Strand Bookstore, NYC, April 2023

#the strand #the strand bookstore #bookstore #book photos #vintage books #bookcore #my photography

[crashcorvid]

Grifter….

#7.15.23 #my footage!! #the strand #ls dunes #ls dunes providence #lsdunes #anthony green #frank iero #tucker rule #tim payne #travis stever #circa survive #the sound of animals fighting

[killthefuhkinglights]

WHAT THE FUXK

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#IM DONE #ENOUGH OK #I DID NOT NEED A REMAKE OF THE LM PHOTOS #IM SET TO KILL RIGHT NOW #frank iero #ls dunes #leathermouth #lm #providence #the strand #rich g

[teaspoonnebula]

The Strand Magazine had two months worth of anonymous articles about how much you can tell a out people's ears, right as The Final Problem was going out.

My Watsonian explanation is that it's definitely Sherlock Holmes desperately trying to leave some kind of intricate coded message to Watson.

#the strand #acd holmes #sherlock holmes #Strand magazine

[theunderestimator-2]

Reading stories of betrayal, despair & friendships going south from “Wally …Did You No Wrong” by Ron Evans:

some of you may -or may not- be familiar with the sad & obscure tale of the lost Sex Pistol, Wally Nightingale, Steve Jones & Paul Cook’s schoolmate who actually put the initial pre-Pistols band together as a trio & provided the classy rehearsal space (“Riverside” studios in Hammersmith, London, where the boys could sneak in since Wally’s dad worked there as an electrician) but got the boot because Malcolm McLaren had decided he didn’t fit the image he had envisioned for the band, being the geeky & uncool kid with the ‘old man’s glasses’. He was completely erased from the Pistols history in a heartbeat, as though he had never existed and the rest is known R’n’R history.

Wally’s story remains a fairytale gone bad, one in which the dishonest get all the glory while the good guy is left with bollocks, and Ron’s book is so rich in first-hand feedback and so well written that sometimes it’s hard not to actually see the narrative played in your head as a scene from a movie that hasn’t been filmed yet. Like the heartbreaking part where Wally’s pals come to his parents’ house, after he was ousted from his own band, to get all the gear that he kept in his bedroom: guitars, acoustics, amps, saxophones, foot controls and harmonicas that had been nicked throughout the band’s lifespan. Wally had been gutted but he managed to keep it all in with dignity (he was such a lovely bloke that he even went for a drink with his ‘former’ bandmates that same night after he got the axe) and when they came with a van to move the gear, he dutifully even helped them to unplug and pack everything up, carefully putting everything in their cases, while his mum and dad silently stood in the hallway, till his mum broke into tears and had to be hurried into the living room while shouting that they owed Wally:

“I could hear her crying as I went back upstairs to say goodbye to Wally. His bedroom door was ajar and I looked through the gap. All I could see was that second-hand Les Pau copy he’d bought in order to start the band sitting on its stand, and Wally sitting on his bed crying”, says his schoolmate Steve Hayes.

Needless to say that the late Wally Nightingale is my all-time favorite R’n’R anti-hero, the most underrated figure in the entire history of punk & the undisputed champion of punk rock underdogs, and Ron Evans, his younger schoolmate/neighbor/friend/bandmate in Key West -the band Wally Nightingale played after the Sex Pistols- has done an excellent job in documenting Wally’s tragic path to self-destruction. You can order the book from his site: https://www.ronevans.rocks/, as well as his cool music, which you can also enjoy on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1z5w6O0737uoAZutq48mrn

#wally nightingale #the sex pistols #sex pistols #ron evans #early punk scene #punk #punk rock #did you no wrong #books #personal #swankers #the strand #the swankers #people

[innovacancy]

L.S. Dunes The Strand, Providence, RI 15 July 2023 full gallery and write-up here

#ls dunes #frank iero #anthony green #the strand

[cantsayidont]

July 1987. Another page from the CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES version of "A Scandal in Bohemia," illustrated by Dan Day, as Sherlock Holmes pursues his quarry to the Church of St. Monica with unexpected results. The text reads:

"I was half dragged up to the altar, and, before I knew where I was, I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just now. It seems that there had been some informality about their licence, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to wear it on my watch chain in memory of the occasion." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I, "and what then?" "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the Park, at five as usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove away in different directions, and I went off to may [sic] my own arrangements."

The church described in this scene is fictional (there was no church on the Edgware Road as Conan Doyle describes), so I don't know on what Day based the exterior views, which look photo-referenced. However, the actual ceremony visible in the top illustration references Sidney Paget's illustration in the original publication of "A Scandal in Bohemia" in THE STRAND MAGAZINE in July 1891:

#comics #cases of sherlock holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #dan day #a scandal in bohemia #sidney paget #the strand #sherlock holmes #irene adler

[brontios-helm]

Destiny 2: The Strand Of Dreams

#destiny 2 #the dreaming city #the strand #destiny 2 the strand #destiny 2 the dreaming city #the reef #destiny 2 the reef #bungie #destiny 2 pc