Common krait Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Panorama showing Park Cresent

Panorama showing Park Cresent

Whitlock 11

view from the River Thames

'Juno borrowing the Cestus from Venus'

View of the London Bridge Station

Common krait Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Panorama showing Park CresentFull body study of a Common krait ('Bungaris coeruleus') with two head studies and one scalation detail, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 10 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