Illustrations for Joseph Fayrer's "The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes...", by students of the Government School of Art, Calcutta Paintings and drawings executed under the direction of Sir Joseph Fayrer FRS (1824-1907) for his book "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" (J & A Churchill, London, 1872). Images occasionally endorsed by Fayrer's initials or monogram. 1872