Indian cobra Gerard Murphy View of Highbury Barn

View of Highbury Barn

Comedian Frank Skinner who has just returned from the Edinburgh Festival

barrels and figures

31st August 1960

as his - 25th - assistant Peri

Indian cobra Gerard Murphy View of Highbury BarnHead study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Bans bunniah Keautiah' and details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. A detail of this painting forms part of plate 3 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