King cobra Size:M: 75 x 50cm and the Marble Arch in

and the Marble Arch in its original position

a reference to the high cost of legal fees

Registrar of the University

Costume design

One wears aldermanic gown

King cobra Size:M: 75 x 50cm and the Marble Arch inFull body study of a King cobra ('Ophiophagus elaps') with three head studies to show scalation. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. The painting is on two joined pieces of paper This painting forms plate 7 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