Indian cobra Cumbria A 1934 Bugatti

A 1934 Bugatti

and morning concerts were very popular

Individuals identified include (left to right): Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

He is known as the author of Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America (3rd ed

Indian cobra Cumbria A 1934 BugattiFull body study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Bans bunniah Keautiah' and details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 3 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