Indian cobra Product:Canvas showing carcasses hanging on hooks

showing carcasses hanging on hooks and a crush of figures

Belle Sauvage Yard

John Bull represents the agricultural worker in the heat of the day working to gather the harvest so that the people may be fed through the coming winter

Bird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter piscatorius'

Indian cobra Product:Canvas showing carcasses hanging on hooksFull body study of an Indian cobra ('Naja tripudians'), including variant name 'Bans bunniah Keautiah' and details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms part of plate 3 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