Pit viper[?] mb-code 1619499 Hares' Skins

Hares' Skins

Balcony with statues of the two giants Gog and Magog on either side of an ornate clock

facing a driving blizzard with a broken umbrella

with chandeliers above

'The Covent Garden macaronies'

Pit viper[?] mb-code 1619499 Hares' SkinsFull 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 &