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夏洛克·福尔摩斯雕像

Statue of Sherlock Holmes

作者: 约翰·达布迪
年代: 1999 年
题材: 公共艺术
国家: 英国
描绘对象: 歇洛克·福尔摩斯、男人、鞋、裤、烟斗、吸烟、猎鹿帽、斗篷大衣、站立
属于: list of public art in St Marylebone
委托人: Abbey National

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作品介绍

英国伦敦的夏洛克·福尔摩斯雕像（英语：Statue of Sherlock Holmes）是一尊柯南·道尔笔下大侦探福尔摩斯的雕像，于1999年9月23日揭幕，成为继肯辛顿公园的彼得潘雕像后，伦敦的第二个虚构角色雕像。该雕像有9英尺高，具足了猎鹿帽、斗篷大衣和烟斗等标志。其所在地就位于伦敦地铁贝克街站旁，也邻近小说中福尔摩斯的住处贝克街221B号。

历史

早在1927年，著名小说家、“布朗神父”作者G·K·却斯特顿就已提议要在贝克街建立福尔摩斯雕像，但最终未能达成目的。1996年，伦敦夏洛克·福尔摩斯协会展开建立福尔摩斯雕像的计划。1998年，雕塑家约翰·达布迪被聘请来设计福尔摩斯雕像（此前他设计了瑞士迈林根的福尔摩斯雕像），同时这个项目也获得了阿比国民银行的资助。

该雕像终于1999年9月23日正式揭幕，福尔摩斯协会举办了为期一周的庆祝活动。

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A statue of Sherlock Holmes by the sculptor John Doubleday stands near the supposed site of 221B Baker Street, the fictional detective's address in London. Unveiled on 23 September 1999, the sculpture was funded by the Abbey National building society, whose headquarters were on the purported site of the famous address. As no site was available on Baker Street itself the statue was installed outside Baker Street tube station, on Marylebone Road. Doubleday had previously produced a statue of Holmes for the town of Meiringen in Switzerland, below the Reichenbach Falls whence the detective fell to his apparent death in the 1893 story "The Final Problem".

Description

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, and holding a calabash pipe (which appears to be a later addition).

It is located outside Baker Street tube station on Marylebone Road, two blocks from the detective's fictional home at 221B Baker Street, and near the Sherlock Holmes Museum between numbers 237 and 241.

History

In 1927 G. K. Chesterton was the first person to suggest that a statue of Holmes be sited in London, but his efforts came to nothing. A new campaign was begun by the Sherlock Holmes Society of London in 1996. Before then the society had, according to its president Anthony Howlett, spent "a decade or two debating whether we should put a statue smack in the middle of Baker Street, and the traffic be damned". The Sherlock Holmes Statue Company Limited was set up to manage the project. In 1998, Abbey National agreed to fund the statue because of their connection with Holmes. (Their headquarters were at 215−229 Baker Street and they employed a member of staff to respond to any letters addressed to Holmes at 221B.)

John Doubleday, the sculptor of the first statue of Holmes at Meiringen, was given the commission for the London statue on 31 March 1998. After the plans to install the statue were announced some local residents and the St Marylebone Society spoke out against the work, saying that it was "not very appropriate. It should have been in Baker Street itself, which is much quieter." The statue was unveiled by Lord Tugendhat, the chairman of Abbey National, on 23 September 1999.

Since 2014, Doubleday's sculpture has been one of a series of "Talking Statues" across London where passers-by can receive a simulated telephone call from the statue's subject by scanning a QR code or visiting a link. The Holmes statue is voiced by the actor Ed Stoppard with a script written by the English novelist Anthony Horowitz which humorously gives details relating to the statue's appearance.

Other statues of Sherlock Holmes

Before London received its statue of Sherlock Holmes examples had already been installed in 1988 in Meiringen, also in 1988 in Karuizawa (Japan) and in 1991 on the site of Conan-Doyle's birthplace in Edinburgh. In 2007, a statue of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson was erected in Moscow near the British embassy.

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