Indian cobra Size:Standard: 14.8 x 10.5cm demolished in 1858

demolished in 1858

A cooper with his tools and materials

From Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry

Map of Chiswick in the London borough of Hounslow

to lead him

Indian cobra Size:Standard: 14.8 x 10.5cm demolished in 1858Head study of an Indian cobra ("Naja tripudians") showing hood markings from the rear, including regional variant name "Kurrees Gokurrah from Nagpur C. P". The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 6 of "The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life, and a series of experiments", by Sir Joseph Fayrer FRS