King cobra mb-code 1619721 c1911-c1927

c1911-c1927

View of the George Inn

View towards Ludgate Hill from the temporary bridge showing the railway works of the London

view of the house which once belonged to Sir George McKenzie

the use of which had been causing the Conservatives so much difficulty during the last couple of Sessions

King cobra mb-code 1619721 c1911-c1927Full body study of a King cobra ('Ophiophagus elaps') with three head studies to show scalation. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. The painting is on two joined pieces of paper This painting forms plate 7 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 (1824 1907), J & A