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A deerstalker. A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking.Because of the cap's popular association with the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, [1] it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.
Statue of Sherlock Holmes in an Inverness cape and deerstalker, at Conan Doyle's birthplace in Edinburgh. Arguably the most famous example in fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective Sherlock Holmes is often associated with the Inverness cape. [3] However, in the novels, Holmes is described as wearing an Ulster. [10]
Holmes then reveals that in World War I, the real Barham was a prisoner in a German war camp and had an uncanny resemblance to a Heinrich Von Bock, a member of the German Secret Service; one day the real Barham was taken out and executed; the gentleman who called Holmes into the case was Von Bock himself who had been posing as Barham for 24 ...
Holmes and Watson were often depicted wearing traditional gentleman's attire in illustrations set in London by Sidney Paget, whose illustrations accompanied Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand Magazine. While Paget is credited with depicting Holmes wearing a deerstalker hat and Inverness cape, Paget only depicted Holmes wearing these garments ...
Deerstalker – hunting cap with fold-down ears, associated with Sherlock Holmes, ... An Iraqi girl wearing a headscarf in downtown Baghdad (April 2005). ...
The 3-metre-high (9.8 ft) statue depicts Holmes wearing an Inverness cape and a deerstalker, attributes first given to him by Sidney Paget, the illustrator of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories for The Strand Magazine, [1] and holding a calabash pipe (which appears to be a later addition).
A Paget depiction of Sherlock Holmes (right) and Dr. Watson from "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" (1893) Paget's illustration of Holmes and Moriarty's fatal encounter at the Reichenbach Falls in "The Final Problem" (1893) Paget wearing a deerstalker cap
William Hooker Gillette (July 24, 1853 – April 29, 1937) was an American actor-manager, playwright, and stage manager in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film.