| Description | Plate 7 of Joseph Fayrer's "Thanatophidia of India..." Full body painting of the reptile with three head studies to show scalation. Title information above the specimen with details of size and a note "From Life." Pencil annotation "Plate 10" upper left. Inscribed below "Drawn by Annnoda Prosaud Bagchee, Student, Govt. Sch: of Art, Calcutta." [Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905)]. The painting is on two joined pieces of paper. |