Description | [Part of] Plate 25 of Joseph Fayrer's "Thanatophidia of India..." Full body painting of the snake with three head details and a body scalation detail. Title information above painting with size and a note "Drawn From Nature" Pencil annotation "To go with plate 31" upper left. Inscribed below "Annoda P. Bagchee, Student. Govt. School of Art Calcutta." [Annada Prasad Bagchi (1849-1905)]. The mount board has a printed label verso: "Airey Force. London; M&N Hanhart 64, Charlotte St., Fitzroy Square." [Messrs Hanhart published the Lake District views, "The Lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland" and were also the lithograpgers for Fayrer's book]. |