King cobra mb-code 1619721 Lakeside view with four members

Lakeside view with four members of Percy Smith's surveying team gathererd at a rock channel

Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey

Johnny Rotten

It was severely damaged by a fire in 1795

Preserving their religious principles is obviously more important than educating them

King cobra mb-code 1619721 Lakeside view with four membersFull body study of a King cobra ('Ophiophagus elaps') with three head studies to show scalation. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. The painting is on two joined pieces of paper This painting forms plate 7 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