Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty fight to the death at the Reichenbach Falls

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OriginalThe Death of Sherlock Holmes (Sidney Paget, 1893) Umpf! Urg! Gerroff! Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty tussling at the Reichenbach Falls (Spoiler: Holmes only pretends to die; he tips the Prof over the edge thanks to his baritsu skills (presumably scalding him with frothy milk) and then skips off for a world tour without a word to Watson)
Reason
Iconic image of detective fiction; the grudge match between The Great Detective and The Napoleon of Crime. I admit this isn't a sure thing for FP because it is actually lower resolution that the image it replaced and has competition from the original pen and ink drawing. However I think having the caption and frame to the plate is important as this is how it was originally presented, and the Paget artwork was only produced to allow the print to be created, so don't make yourself look silly by arguing against it on those points (I'm attempting peer pressure here). The line across the print is because the original artwork was in two pieces.
Articles in which this image appears
The Final Problem, The Adventure of the Empty House and in a gallery in Reichenbach Falls
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Literary illustrations
Creator
Sidney Paget

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 17:14, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]