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Image number: RS.8435
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Indian cobra
Date
1872
Creator
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849 - 1905, Indian) , Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 354mm
width (painting): 256mm
width (painting): 256mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of an Indian cobra, Naja naja, here referred to as Naja tripudians and Khoyah gokurra. Full body depicted with head in right profile, against a grassy background. Details of specimen size provided.
Inscribed in ink: ‘NAJA TRIPUDIANS./ Khoyah Gokhurah [scored out and corrected to ‘Gokurrah’]/ Length including tail – 5.7”/ Tail 9”/ Circum 5 ½”/ From life./ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. Govt. Sch: of Art Calcutta.’ with further pencil annotation ‘Plate 1’. Pencil annotations believed to be in Joseph Fayrer’s hand.
From MS/628, a set of paintings and drawings executed by students of the Government School of Art, Kolkata, for Joseph Fayrer’s The Thanatophidia of India. Later published as plate 1 of this text.
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Calcutta Art Studio in 1878.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India, a study of venomous snakes, illustrated by members of the Kolkata School of Art and published by the colonial government.
Inscribed in ink: ‘NAJA TRIPUDIANS./ Khoyah Gokhurah [scored out and corrected to ‘Gokurrah’]/ Length including tail – 5.7”/ Tail 9”/ Circum 5 ½”/ From life./ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. Govt. Sch: of Art Calcutta.’ with further pencil annotation ‘Plate 1’. Pencil annotations believed to be in Joseph Fayrer’s hand.
From MS/628, a set of paintings and drawings executed by students of the Government School of Art, Kolkata, for Joseph Fayrer’s The Thanatophidia of India. Later published as plate 1 of this text.
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Calcutta Art Studio in 1878.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India, a study of venomous snakes, illustrated by members of the Kolkata School of Art and published by the colonial government.
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Object history
Sir Joseph Fayrer, first baronet, (1824-1907), surgeon and author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1877. Fayrer worked in India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India, a study of venomous snakes, illustrated by members of the Kolkata School of Art and published by the colonial government.Joseph Fayrer
Related fellows
Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907, British) , Surgeon
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