George Charles Haité was an English designer, painter, illustrator and writer. His most famous work is the iconic cover design of the Strand Magazine, launched in 1891, which helped popularise the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. Haité was also a founder member and the first president of the London Sketch Club.
Caricature of George Charles Haité by Tom Browne
Cliffs (1900), watercolour by G. C. Haité
The Strand annual 1894
1899 London Sketch Club cartoon of Haité by Dudley Hardy
The Strand Magazine was a monthly British magazine founded by George Newnes, composed of short fiction and general interest articles. It was published in the United Kingdom from January 1891 to March 1950, running to 711 issues, though the first issue was on sale well before Christmas 1890.
Its immediate popularity is evidenced by an initial sale of nearly 300,000. Sales increased in the early months, before settling down to a circulation of almost 500,000 copies a month, which lasted well into the 1930s.
Bound volume of The Strand Magazine for January–June 1894, featuring George Charles Haité's cover design
Cover of the September 1917 edition of the magazine featuring Sherlock Holmes
