Description | Plate 12 of Joseph Fayrer's "Thanatophidia of India..." Full body painting of the snake with two head studies and one body detail to show the scalation, including the saw scales from which the reptile takes its common name. Title information above the specimen with a note "From Life Life Size." Pencil annotation "Plate 16" upper left. Inscribed below "Drawn by Annoda Prosaud Bagchee, Student, Govt. Sch: of Art. Calcutta." [Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905)]. |