Indian cobra Finish:Rolled 'Westham Church near Pevensey'

'Westham Church near Pevensey'

represents the useless chaff

The equestrian statue of George III

Carved figure in oak

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Indian cobra Finish:Rolled 'Westham Church near Pevensey'Full body study of an Indian cobra ("Naja tripudians"), including variant name "Khoyah Gokurrah". The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. A detail from this painting forms part of plate 1 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.