Indian cobra mb-width 5730 'Knives Combs or Inkhornes'

'Knives Combs or Inkhornes'

November 29

View of an event in the Freemasons' Hall

Showing figures in Tudor costume

from the paper 'A description of the solvent glands and gizzards of the Ardea argala

Indian cobra mb-width 5730 'Knives Combs or Inkhornes'Full body study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Dudia Keautiah'. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 2 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, London, 1872. Original: watercolour on