King cobra
Date
1872
Creator
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849 - 1905, Indian) , Artist
Creator - Organisation
M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
38927
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 455mm
width (page): 660mm
width (page): 660mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of a King cobra, Ophiophagus Hannah, here referred to as Ophiophagus elaps. Depicting head in right profile and full body, with three sketched details showing scalation on the head, from above, below and the side.
Inscribed: ‘OPHIOPHAGUS ELAPS Plate 7./ Length 7’9” Circum 8”/ From life./ Drawn by Annoda Prosad Bagchee Student. M & N HANHART CHROMOLITH. Govt. Sch. Of Art. Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘The Ophiophagus is probably the largest and most deadly of the Thanatophidia; fortunately, though widely distributed, it is not very common. According to Gunther it is found in almost every part of the Indian continent […]’.
Plate 7 from Joseph Fayrer’s 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 (London, 1872). A study of various Indian snake species and how to treat their bites. Complete with colour illustrations to aid classification and identification created by students of the Kolkata School of Art. Published by the colonial government.
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Kolkata 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 colonial India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
Inscribed: ‘OPHIOPHAGUS ELAPS Plate 7./ Length 7’9” Circum 8”/ From life./ Drawn by Annoda Prosad Bagchee Student. M & N HANHART CHROMOLITH. Govt. Sch. Of Art. Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘The Ophiophagus is probably the largest and most deadly of the Thanatophidia; fortunately, though widely distributed, it is not very common. According to Gunther it is found in almost every part of the Indian continent […]’.
Plate 7 from Joseph Fayrer’s 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 (London, 1872). A study of various Indian snake species and how to treat their bites. Complete with colour illustrations to aid classification and identification created by students of the Kolkata School of Art. Published by the colonial government.
Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905), Indian artist, co-founder of the Kolkata 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 colonial India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
Object history
This volume was presented to the Royal Society on 27 July 1872 with an accompanying letter from the author [‘May I beg the Royal Society’s acceptance of a copy of my work on the Poisonous Snakes of India’].
Related fellows
Joseph Fayrer (1824 - 1907, British) , Surgeon
Associated place