Pit viper[?] mb-code 1619499 'The Covent Garden macaronies'

'The Covent Garden macaronies'

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

Hares' Skins

west out of Milton Street between numbers 3 and 4

Pit viper[?] mb-code 1619499 'The Covent Garden macaronies'Full 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 &