Lot Essay
Arthur Twidle (1865-1936) lived and worked in Sidcup. Although comparatively little is known of his early career, his known works are linked with the celebrated author Arthur Conan Doyle. By the early 20th-Century he was sufficiently established as an illustrator to have presented work to the Royal Academy (between 1903-13) and to have also illustrated two famous Sherlock Holmes stories published in The Strand Magazine in 1908 -- The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (October) and The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (December).