MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Size:L: 90 x 60cm America and Reform

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Morris dancer performing during the may day festival

Tycho Brahe's equatorial armillary sphere ('Armillae aequatoriae') in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven

William Pitt holding up the dome of St Paul's Cathedral which he is about to place over the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral

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MacClelland's Coral Snake [?] Size:L: 90 x 60cm America and ReformFull body study of a MacClelland's Coral Snake ('Callophis maclellandii') with head and body studies for scalation detail, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from nature. This painting forms part of plate 10 of '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', by Sir Joseph Fayrer