Holmes & Watson forever and always

"Here, though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five".

[holmesxwatson]

✨ TAGS & LINKS master list ✨ (work in progress :)) [if any links don't work on mobile, try opening them in a browser or on desktop]

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Posts from me

Jeremy Brett pictures tag (bonus, that will make your life a little brighter and deserves its own tag: Jeremy Brett's little hoop earring)

Fanart reblogs

Fanfic recs tag

Book recs tag

Fanvid recs tag

Granada Holmes clips & gifs tag

Merrison Holmes audio drama tag

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes movie tag

Howard Holmes tag

Links from me just being a Sherlock Holmes nerd

My Sherlock shelf on Goodreads

YouTube playlist of my favorite Granada fan videos

A Centenary Celebration of Sherlock Holmes 1887-1987, Granada companion magazine pdf

My Spotify playlist of Jeremy Brett's Desert Island Disc songs + poetry (and here's the audio of his Desert Island Discs interview)

Links

Wessex Press

Very Sincerely Yours fan zine

watson’s sketchbook by @contact-guy (continuing series of canon Victorian Holmes and Watson drawings with occasional headcanon <3)

The Beekeeper’s Picnic (point and click adventure game of Holmes and Watson in retirement)

The Lost Cases: The Private Diary of John Watson (Victorian Holmes x Watson ongoing romance series) by Ruth Hanson

When the Rose Speaks Its Name: A Sherlock Holmes Anthology

The Secret of Sherlock Holmes play

Sherlock Holmes magazine

MX Publishing

Sidney Paget illustrations

Granada Holmes Christmas Carol special 1984

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Furtive Festivity - short film

Classic Sherlock Holmes Films, Series, Audio Plays & Documentaries Playlists

Hope you find something here that's your favorite thing ever. Enjoy!

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Art study of J.C. Leyendecker's Welcome Home with Mrs Hudson and Dr Watson.

This was the first Holmes Leyendecker study I did, before my study of Consolation and it was fun to dry and figure out what to use and how to use it to get close to replicating his style in digital form.

[ID: Digital illustration of Mrs Hudson and Dr John Watson, a recreation of Leyendecker's illustration "Welcome Home". Mrs Hudson has reached her hands out to gently hold onto Watson's shoulders in greeting, a soft expression on her face. In turn, Watson touches her back and puts his other hand on one of her forearms with a smile. He is in a brown coat and matching bowler hat and mrs Hudson is wearing her dress with the little flowers. They are meant to resemble their Granada series counterparts; Rosalie Williams as Mrs Hudson and David Burke as Dr Watson. /end ID]

(details under the cut)

[ID: Detail focusing on the pattern of Mrs Hudson's dress; it is a deep navy with liny violet flowers. /end ID]

[ID: Detail focusing on their hands and Watson's torso; his brown vest, coat and dotten tie. He gently rests his hand on Mrs Hudson's forearm, a hold band on his ring finger. Mrs Hudsons own hands are resting gently on the lapels of his coat. /end ID]

[ID: Detail focusing on Mrs Hudson's gentle face. Her grey hair is up in a bun and there's a pink to her cheeks as she looks at her doctor softly like a mother. /end ID]

[ID: Detail focusing on Watson's face. He smiles open mouthed in joy at his return. /end ID]

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Oh huh! I hadn't realized I didn't post this one here on Tumblr! I finished this study in early March and have plans to have it be one of 3 pieces to go together 🙂‍↕️

[ID: Digital painting of Sherlock Holmes and Toby the dog, a study of Leyendecker's "Man with a dog" (1909) for Collier's Weekly. Holmes is in his coat, striped pants, top hat and grey scarf, Toby following a trace by his side. They are painted mid-motion. /end ID]

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My best friend and I were watching some Disney stuff and then this happened 😆

[ID: Two digital artwork images: first, three colored sketches of [Granada] Sherlock Holmes in a disney-adjascent style. He's in different outfits- his usual three piece, a grey coat and scarf with a top hat, and covered in his favorite knit blanket.

Second, a colored sketch of Holmes dancing with Toby in a disney-adjascent style. /end ID]

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[ID: Digital illustration of Granada Holmes and Watson sharing a sweet moment. Holmes, wrapped in his favorite shawl, holds Watson by the waist. They're looking into each other's eyes, smiling softly. A faint trail of saliva connects them. Under the image, in cursive, reads: "I've told you before, my dear. I am lost without my Boswell." /end ID]

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It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

[ID: Digital painting, a recreation of one of Leyendecker's Interwoven Socks ads, of a gentleman sitting in a wooden chair before a wooden desk, clutching some envelopes in hand. Instead, it's Dr Watson as played by David Burke, and there's an assortment of chemistry vials on the desk as well as a microscope.

Watson's in a light suit and has a yellow flower pinned to his lapel. The chair he sits in is a swivel one. He sits before a solid coral background. /end ID]

(details and some rambling under the cut!)

While I mostly find that quote up there like a big backhanded compliment, there's a part of me that finds it really endearing.

I think, the question is, can pure sunshine be a conductor of light? Because that's what Watson, especially David Burke's, is to me.

I started this study on the day Mr Burke's passing was shared publicly without knowing if I'd finish it, but I ended up chipping away at it light by little these past few days. I hope I have managed to do him even the slightest bit of justice 💛

Anyway, deets!

[ID: An assortment of details of the above illustration, each focusing on a different part of the image. In order:

1: Detail focusing on Watson's face. He's smiling gently, eyes closed.

2: Detail focusing on his hand holding the envelopes and a couple of beakers on the desk behind him, propped up by a metal stand.

3: Detail focusing on the microscope on the desk.

4: Detail focusing on the leg he's got crossed, painted in such a way that the sole of the shoe is facing the viewer.

5: Detail focusing on the other leg planted on the ground and the desk drawers behind it.

6: Detail focusing on the wooden swivel chair. /end ID]

[caketopus-bleg]

A Reichenbach Falls embroidery inspired by the brilliant @contact-guy Watson's Sketchbook. Make me feel things and I must stab things artistically.

[beekeaper]

making a collection 🎻

GIVE ME MORE

eille norwood, arthur wontner, john longden, ronald howard, jeremy brett, basil rathbone, peter cushing, robert stephens, sherlock hound, basil of baker street, igor petrenko, peter cook, robert downey jr, john neville, anthony higgins, vitaly solomon, benedict cumberbatch, moriarty the patriot manga, dean fujioka, yuko takeuchi, henry cavill, henry lloyd-hughes, moriarty the patriot anime, sherlock chapter one.

[holmesxwatson]

so extremely excited to have this lovely book in my hands ♥️✨

thanks to @very-sincerely-yours-zine and all the talented contributors for such beautiful, heartfelt work

[bokkunmann]

Lesson

[nuthin-gold-can-stay]

whats funny to me is that all the sherlock adaptations show sherlock as a creepy braggy intelligent cryptid watched by his exasperated friend watson while the truth in acd canon is. sherlock is a whimsical braggy intelligent cryptid watched by his enthralled and deeply proud friend watson. theres a difference there and it includes the world whimsical because goddamn fuck canon sherlock is WHIMSICAL

[bonesart]

Shenanigans afoot

[ID: A digital pencil sketch of Holmes and Watson shown from the shoulders up. Watson is side-eyeing Holmes with a scowl. Holmes is sporting a mischievous and very self-satisfied smile.]

[icantbotherwithusernames]

short animatic based on this post from my mutual. holmes and watson get transported to the future, but☝️ only to conduct an autocomplete interview.

[icantbotherwithusernames]

Sherlock Holmes but he's a magical girl. He still solves crimes with deductive reasoning. He's just a magical girl for no reason now.

bonus explanation of some design details. i'm not crazy i swear

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Norwood Builder (1985)

I wanted to share my most favorite scene from Granada Holmes today 💛

[jeremybrettholmes]

One of the finest and most beloved Watsons ever to grace the screen has passed away. David Burke was 91 years old, just shy of his 92nd birthday, and he is survived by his wife Anna Calder-Marshall and his son Tom Burke.

By all accounts, he was a gentleman and a wonderful human being. He could have stayed on to play Watson much longer, which would have made many of us very happy, but he chose to leave the show to be nearer to his family, especially since Tom was very young at the time.

His was not the first intelligent and competent Watson, but this version marked a turning point in mainstream depictions, from comedic sidekick to a hero in his own right.

RIP, dear sir. You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

~*~

To read a longer and moving tribute, please check out the I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere website: https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2026/05/david-burke-first-watson-of-granada-era.html. The tribute includes a link to the interview that the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast conducted with David and his wife a few years ago.

[ghostgirl666artist]

They are informing him of something 👀.