Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Guess we couldn't Both Win:

Guess we couldn't Both Win: So let's Shake Hands

28th July 1970

with men in the foreground

Tom Rakewell and a companion consorting with harlots in a tavern

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Guess we couldn't Both Win:Dual 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,