Indian cobra Finish:Rolled The proposed Greenwich and Gravesend

The proposed Greenwich and Gravesend rail road

Built by the Thames Ironworks

Entrance to Coade and Sealey's Gallery of Coade stone sculpture

scene with two country innkeepers

Interior view of a Roman wine shop

Indian cobra Finish:Rolled The proposed Greenwich and GravesendDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Macrra Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 4 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.