Banded krait Size:S: 40 x 40cm Mike Parkes driving a Ferrari

Mike Parkes driving a Ferrari

Sunday 27th February 1972

'How to stop up the passage'

expected to end in 1814

showing the underside of the shell

Banded krait Size:S: 40 x 40cm Mike Parkes driving a FerrariFull body study of a Banded krait ('Bungaris fasciatus') with two head studies and one banding detail to show scalation and patterning, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 9 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