Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Exterior view of the villa

Exterior view of the villa of the Earl of Mansfield

Parlour of the Queen's Head Inn

Princess Diana

Inscribed: 'Isaacus Newton Equs

leaning on his stick

Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Exterior view of the villaFull 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 &