Indian cobra Finish:Rolled scene with two country innkeepers

scene with two country innkeepers

with their plastic sheets ready to protect them from the rain

Entrance to Coade and Sealey's Gallery of Coade stone sculpture

Interior view of a Roman wine shop

Indian cobra Finish:Rolled scene with two country innkeepersDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Macrra Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 4 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.