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Nash vowed never to work for someone else again

Unnamed tavern on Millbank

5th January 1965

Golden Lane

Five specimens of reptiles John singer Sargent Nash vowed never to workZoological studies of five types of lizards and snakes. Figure 1 'The Rattle Snake from the West Indies; taken from one of those preserv'd in the Museum of the Royal Society.' Figure 2 'A West Indian serpent; taken from the original in the same Museum.' Figure 3 'A Lizard from Sir Hans Sloane's Cabinet'. Figure 4 chameleon, 'The Camelion; from the Royal Society.' Figure 5 'A Flying Lizard from Amboina in the East Indies; from my own collection' [Ambon

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