Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in seated and in civic costume

seated and in civic costume showing robe and hat

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II arriving at Albert Pier in Jersey on her royal visit to the Channel Islands with her husband Prince Philip

or plates of rare fishes by John Richardson (London

Offenhauser midget racing car

'The Old Woman of Threadneedle Street'

Indian cobra Size:Large: 7 x 5in seated and in civic costumeDual 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,