Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Tower of London under siege

Tower of London under siege during the riots of November 1830

Showing figures making repairs to ships and boats or handling cargo

approaching London Bridge

Cherry Garden Street

and had offered to lend his support

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in Tower of London under siegeDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Macrra Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 4 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.