Malabar pit viper and red-tailed bamboo pit viper
Date
1872
Creator
Creator - Organisation
M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
Object type
Library reference
38927
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 455mm
width (page): 330mm
width (page): 330mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of two snake species: left as viewed, a Malabar pit viper, Craspedocephalus malabaricus, here referred to as Trimersurus anamallensis, and right, a red-tailed bamboo pit viper, Trimeresurus erythrurus, here referred to as Trimeresurus carinatus, each showing full body with details of scalation.
Inscribed: ‘Plate 14./ TRIMERESURUS ANAMALLENSIS./ from Nature./ Length 1’3”/ Circum 1 ½”/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Studt. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. [Left as viewed]/ TRIMERESURUS ERYTHRURUS./ from Nature./ IND MUS/ Length including Tail 2’ 2”/ Tail 3 ½”/ Girth of body 2”/ Do. of neck ¾”/ Drawn by Nityanunda Dey Studt/ Goc. Schl. Of Art. Calcutta.’
Written in the associated text of the Red-tailed bamboo pit viper: ‘The lips and chin are white, the lateral line is white bordered with purple or greenish below. Colour grass green, lighter on the sides of the belly.’
Plate 14 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; Nityanunda Dey, 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: ‘Plate 14./ TRIMERESURUS ANAMALLENSIS./ from Nature./ Length 1’3”/ Circum 1 ½”/ Drawn by Annada Prasad Bagchi, Studt. M & N HANHART CHROM LITH. [Left as viewed]/ TRIMERESURUS ERYTHRURUS./ from Nature./ IND MUS/ Length including Tail 2’ 2”/ Tail 3 ½”/ Girth of body 2”/ Do. of neck ¾”/ Drawn by Nityanunda Dey Studt/ Goc. Schl. Of Art. Calcutta.’
Written in the associated text of the Red-tailed bamboo pit viper: ‘The lips and chin are white, the lateral line is white bordered with purple or greenish below. Colour grass green, lighter on the sides of the belly.’
Plate 14 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; Nityanunda Dey, 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
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