MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Finish:Single 20th November 1964

20th November 1964

with figures in the nave

At the start of 1963 he bought an ex-Bowmaker Lola and began racing as a Formula 1 privateer with a team based at Haynes in Bedfordshire which consisted of himself and his French wife

propped up against pillows

MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Finish:Single 20th November 1964Full body study of a MacClelland's Coral Snake ('Callophis maclellandii') with head and body studies for scalation detail, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from nature. 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