Arthur Conan Doyle's Pig, and Yours: A Challenge

Green Bag Almanac & Reader, pp. 537-547, 2016

George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 16-12

12 Pages Posted: 17 Mar 2016

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Ross E. Davies

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School; The Green Bag

Date Written: March 16, 2016

Abstract

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, The Strand Magazine printed Arthur Conan Doyle’s byline many, many times — on dozens of Sherlock Holmes stories, and also on a wide range of other works. Only once, however, did the magazine publish a Doyle-signed work that was purely graphical: the pig (yes, it is a pig) pictured above. He drew the pig in response to a challenge The Strand issued to several Victorian-era celebrities. Full details are given in an article — “Pigs of Celebrities,” by Gertrude Bacon — published by The Strand in March 1899. The gist of the challenge is easily summarized: Lift a pen and close your eyes. Keep them closed while drawing a pig. Autograph your work and send it to us. The Green Bag is renewing that challenge. It is open to all our readers, every one of whom is a celebrity in the eyes of the Bag’s editors. Please use the form (and follow the rules) on page 547 below. We will: (1) post on our website all, or at least most, pigs submitted in accordance with the rules (we reserve the right to exclude mean-spirited and copyright-infringing pigs), and (2) publish some exemplary pigs in a future Almanac & Reader, or issue of the Green Bag itself, or perhaps both.

Keywords: Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Furniss, Francis Jeune, Mary Jeune, The Strand Magazine, Victorian England

Suggested Citation

Davies, Ross E., Arthur Conan Doyle's Pig, and Yours: A Challenge (March 16, 2016). Green Bag Almanac & Reader, pp. 537-547, 2016, George Mason Legal Studies Research Paper No. LS 16-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2748653

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