Red-tailed bamboo pit viper
Date
1872
Creator
Hurrish Chunder Khan (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 Red-tailed bamboo pit viper, Trimeresurus erythrurus, here referred to as Trimeresurus carinatus. Viewed from above, with full body depicted at life size and three sketched details showing scalation of the head and body, and the fangs.
Inscribed: TRIMERESURUS CARINATUS./ Specimen in Indian Museum/ Plate 13/ Length 3’. Circum 4”/ Drawn by Hurrish Chunder Khan Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘It is of a dark grass green above throughout, darker on the head and tail, and of a lighter green below, approaching white on the ventral surface. There is no light coloured line running along the outer series of scales, as with some specimens.’
Plate 13 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.
Hurrish Chunder Khan, student at the Government School of Art, Kolkata.
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: TRIMERESURUS CARINATUS./ Specimen in Indian Museum/ Plate 13/ Length 3’. Circum 4”/ Drawn by Hurrish Chunder Khan Student. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. Gov. Sch. Of Art Calcutta’.
Written in the associated description: ‘It is of a dark grass green above throughout, darker on the head and tail, and of a lighter green below, approaching white on the ventral surface. There is no light coloured line running along the outer series of scales, as with some specimens.’
Plate 13 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.
Hurrish Chunder Khan, student at the Government School of Art, Kolkata.
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