image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London | Licence: CC BY 4.0

image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London | Licence: CC BY 4.0

A poisonous snake, green in colour with yellow and green underbelly: includes two outline drawings of the head.

Date

1795

Artist

Patrick Russell

Collection

Wellcome Library

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https://wellcomecollection.org/works/te65whvc

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Description

Watercolour, ca.1795

Inscription: Bodroo pam ; venemous

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Image Credit

image courtesy of Wellcome Library, London

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Location

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

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"An account of Indian serpents, collected on the coast of Coromandel : containing descriptions and drawings of each species, together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons “ , by Patrick Russell, Vol 1, plate IX (https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56230309) and (https://archive.org/stream/accountindianse1russ/accountindianse1russ_djvu.txt)