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wearing armour and a crown on top of a helmet
28th July 1970
'The Old Woman of Threadneedle Street'
seated and in civic costume showing robe and hat
Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in wearing armour and a crownDual 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,