Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in October 1941

October 1941

and Maserati is holding the cycle on the right

28th July 1970

with men in the foreground

Offenhauser midget racing car

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in October 1941Dual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Gerribhanga Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Kurrees Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 5 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 Churchill,