Indian cobra Product:Fine art poster Christian Leinberger pinx

Christian Leinberger pinx

View looking east of Holborn Viaduct being constructed across Farringdon Street

Percy Chapel

The Good Intent Flour Mill

Indian cobra Product:Fine art poster Christian Leinberger pinxFull body study of an Indian cobra ("Naja tripudians"), including variant name "Khoyah Gokurrah". The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. A detail from this painting forms part of plate 1 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.