Russell's viper Product:Postcard an explanatory key and scale

an explanatory key and scale of 1 inch: 4 feet

George IV and Queen Caroline are tied back to back

from the south-east

These are labelled with all of the country's major political factions

Russell's viper Product:Postcard an explanatory key and scaleFull 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.