Indian cobra Cumbria Sitting on the bike smoking

Sitting on the bike smoking a cigarette

Individuals identified include (left to right): Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil

Robert Wagner

Design for a city of London barge

Indian cobra Cumbria Sitting on the bike smokingFull body study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Bans bunniah Keautiah' and details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 3 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