"There's something those fellows catch - beyond life - that they're able to make us catch for a second. Doré had it. Sime has it."

H.P.Lovecraft, 'Pickman's Model'


"The greatest imaginative artist since Blake"

Hannen Swaffer


"No-one has ever captured the spirit of fantasy more perfectly than Sime"

Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Right:'He distinctly saw within himself the drug he had chewed' from 'Haschish Hallucinations' by H.E. Gowers in The Strand magazine, December 1905.


Sidney Sime is now virtually forgotten and his often bizarre illustrations rarely seen. Here you will find three galleries of his remarkable work.
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About Sidney H. Sime

Gallery 1     Gallery 2     Gallery 3

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