Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'The Old Woman of Threadneedle

'The Old Woman of Threadneedle Street'

wearing armour and a crown on top of a helmet

with men in the foreground

or plates of rare fishes by John Richardson (London

Offenhauser midget racing car

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in 'The Old Woman of ThreadneedleDual study of Indian cobra heads ('Naja tripudians'), including variant names 'Gerribhanga Keautiah' and 'Tentuliah Kurrees Keautiah'. The reptiles are noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 5 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,