Common krait Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Panorama showing Park Cresent

Panorama showing Park Cresent

view from the River Thames

View of the London Bridge Station

Also showing John Donne's shrouded statue in detail on the left

'Juno borrowing the Cestus from Venus'

Common krait Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Panorama showing Park CresentFull body study of a Common krait ('Bungaris coeruleus') with two head studies and one scalation detail, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 10 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