Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in and Maserati is holding the

and Maserati is holding the cycle on the right

'The Old Woman of Threadneedle Street'

wearing armour and a crown on top of a helmet

with men in the foreground

28th July 1970

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in and Maserati is holding theDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Gerribhanga Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Kurrees Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 5 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,