Russell's viper Product:Greetings card House agent's advertisement for properties

House agent's advertisement for properties in Norfolk Square

Recorder of the City of London

December 1966

There had been much unrest in Ireland

the lower half shows an exhibition of cotton goods

Russell's viper Product:Greetings card House agent's advertisement for propertiesFull body study of a Russell's viper ('Daboia russellii') with two head studies, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 11 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.