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Pit viper [?]

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Date

1872

Artist

Hurrish Chunder Khan (1849-1905)

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Full body study of a pit viper[?] ("Trimeresurus carinatus") with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, includes details of specimen size and a note "Specimen in Indian Museum". This painting forms plate 13 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. From a set of paintings and drawings executed by students of the Government School of Art, Calcutta, under the direction of Sir Joseph Fayrer for his book "The Thanatophidia of India......". Images are occasionally endorsed by Fayrer's initials or monogram.