MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Finish:20-pack Taxodium distichum

Taxodium distichum

An awestruck Charles Parnell of the Irish Nationalist Party is crouching before his Creature which is depicted with the usual simian features of the Irishman in Punch cartoons

View of no 184 Fleet Street

17th July 1950

MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Finish:20-pack Taxodium distichumFull 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