Inspired by The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound on the Moor
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The Hound of the Baskervilles art prints
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) is the most famous Sherlock Holmes story of all: a family curse, a lonely house and a moor full of fog. My print is the moment the legend walks out of the mist. It is made with AI image tools and art-directed by me in the style of an old hand-coloured print.
The story behind the scene
For most of the book, Doyle has Watson and the reader half believing in the curse of the Baskervilles, a spectral hound that hunts the family across Dartmoor. In Chapter 14 the trap is set, the fog rolls over the moor, and the plan starts to go wrong. Out of the white bank bursts "an enormous coal-black hound", fire breaking from its jaws and its eyes glowing. Holmes and Watson are among the rocks with their revolvers raised. I made it in the style of a 1790s colour print finished in pen and watercolour, as if the picture had been printed long before anyone saw the hound, because I wanted it to be the moment you stop being sure it was only a story.
Gifts for Sherlock Holmes fans
For the detective-story reader, anyone who has walked on Dartmoor, or a study that needs something darker than a magnifying glass. Unframed A4 prints start at £19.99, and framed prints arrive ready to hang.
Questions
- Where is The Hound of the Baskervilles set?
- On Dartmoor in Devon, around the fictional Baskerville Hall and the Grimpen Mire.
- When was it published?
- It was serialised in The Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, and published as a book in 1902.
- Which scene is the print?
- Chapter 14, when the hound comes out of the fog on the moor.
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