Russell's viper Product:Greetings card The front of the prison

The front of the prison with its imposing entrance is shown filling the entire composition

Lord Derby avoided the direct answer

December 1966

Recorder of the City of London

after birth previous day

Russell's viper Product:Greetings card The front of the prisonFull body study of a Russell's viper ('Daboia russellii') with two head studies, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 11 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.