Indian cobra NTS_BROE_73_151.tif who exceeded all his predecessors

who exceeded all his predecessors in his sybaritic way of life

A shooting party

carrying lengths of rope

Pit Bull terriers are set in a pit at Westminster

Madame Justice is depicted here as blinded

Indian cobra NTS_BROE_73_151.tif who exceeded all his predecessorsDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Gerribhanga Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Kurrees Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 5 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,