Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Inscribed: 'Isaacus Newton Equs

Inscribed: 'Isaacus Newton Equs

Princess Diana

leaning on his stick

Bird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter palumbarius'

Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Inscribed: 'Isaacus Newton EqusFull body study of a pit viper [?] ('Trimeresurus carinatus') with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, includes details of specimen size and a note 'Specimen in Indian Museum'. This painting forms plate 13 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 &