Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Cherry Garden Street

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Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Cherry Garden StreetDual 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.