Saw-scaled viper Size:M: 75 x 60cm North Germany and Russia

North Germany and Russia

Smith Elder & Co

Plate 45 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

posed upright and holding a wooden staff

View of the north-western end of St James's Church

Saw-scaled viper Size:M: 75 x 60cm North Germany and RussiaFull body study of a Saw scaled viper ('Echis carinata') with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, including the saw scales from which the reptile takes its common name, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 12 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