Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Parlour of the Queen's Head

Parlour of the Queen's Head Inn

Bird identified by Catesby as 'Accipiter palumbarius'

Roman pavement disovered in Cannon Street

Penton Street

Pit viper[?] Corporation of Windsor Parlour of the Queen's HeadFull body study of a pit viper [?] ('Trimeresurus carinatus') with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, includes details of specimen size and a note 'Specimen in Indian Museum'. This painting forms plate 13 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 FRS (1824 1907), J &