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Title from published caption.
Original drawing by E.J. Sullivan for an illustration for Robert Barr's short story, "The King investigates," published in the author's collected series of short stories featuring the fictionalized adventures of James V Scotland, entitled: A prince of good fellows, London : Chatto & Windus; New York : McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902.
Signed and dated at lower right, "E.J. Sullivan. 1901"; captioned in pencil at top, "The forty-one trees bore their burden. The investigation of the King"; label on verso recording the title of the article and the artist.
Drawing shows the bodies of men clad in kilts hanging from trees in a forest.