Viperine sea snake and black-banded sea snake
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): 330mm
width (page): 330mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Herpetological study of two snake species: left as viewed, a viperine sea snake, Hydrophis viperinus, here referred to as Hydrophis nigra (Anderson), and right, a black-banded sea snake, Hydrophis nigrocinctus, here referred to as Hydrophis nigrocincta. Each showing full body with details of scalation.
Inscribed: ‘HYDROPHIS NIGRA (ANDERSON)./ DRAWN FROM NATURE POOREE ORISSA/ Length including Tail 1’6 ¼”/ Girth of body 1 ¼”/ Length of tail 2”/ Plate 25. [Left as viewed] / HYDROPHIS NIGROCINCTA./ FROM NATURE. IND. MUS./ Length including Tail 1’11”/ Tail 2 ¾”/ Girth of Body 2 ¼”/ Girth of Neck 1 1/8”/ Annoda Prosad Bagchee. Student. M & N HANHART CHROMOLITH. Govt. School of Art. Calcutta’.
Plate 25 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 India between 1850 and 1872 and is best known for The Thanatophidia of India.
Inscribed: ‘HYDROPHIS NIGRA (ANDERSON)./ DRAWN FROM NATURE POOREE ORISSA/ Length including Tail 1’6 ¼”/ Girth of body 1 ¼”/ Length of tail 2”/ Plate 25. [Left as viewed] / HYDROPHIS NIGROCINCTA./ FROM NATURE. IND. MUS./ Length including Tail 1’11”/ Tail 2 ¾”/ Girth of Body 2 ¼”/ Girth of Neck 1 1/8”/ Annoda Prosad Bagchee. Student. M & N HANHART CHROMOLITH. Govt. School of Art. Calcutta’.
Plate 25 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 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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