Saw-scaled viper
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): 330mm
width (page): 455mm
width (page): 455mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of a saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus, here referred to as Echis carinata. Viewed from above, with full body depicted at life size and three sketched details showing scalation of the head and body.
Inscribed: ‘ECHIS CARINATA./ From Life./ Life Size. Plate 12/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘It is much smaller than the Daboia; it is venomous, but Gunther says its bite is not known to have proved fatal. This I think is very doubtful; one in my possession killed a fowl in four minutes, another in two minutes, and a dog in about four hours.’
Plate 12 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: ‘ECHIS CARINATA./ From Life./ Life Size. Plate 12/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘It is much smaller than the Daboia; it is venomous, but Gunther says its bite is not known to have proved fatal. This I think is very doubtful; one in my possession killed a fowl in four minutes, another in two minutes, and a dog in about four hours.’
Plate 12 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