Illustration accompanying a poem published in Harper's Monthly magazine, March 1905. Ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper, adhered to board. 320x242 mm; 12⅛x9½ inches. Signed "Strothmann" in lower right image. Stamped, "Copyright, 1905, by Harper & Brothers."
Poem is inscribed in pencil in lower margin, "The bravest of explorers sees a snake and starts to quake; I stood within an inch of one and never shook a shake!"
