Russell's viper Size:XL: 100 x 80cm 'The Gladstone Pill'

'The Gladstone Pill'

and also the first all-British entry in a foreign road race

including a steamboat

View of Portman Square's north side

Russell's viper Size:XL: 100 x 80cm 'The Gladstone Pill'Full body study of a Russell's viper ('Daboia russellii') with two head studies, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 11 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.