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Venomous Snakes

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Snakes
Poisonous animals

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Images from the collections

Images about Venomous Snakes

16 images from works
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • The strangling of a poisonous snake, representing the crushing of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after G. Dorival and G. Capon, ca. 1918.
  • Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people writhe on the ground, besieged by fiery serpents. Etching by G. Cooke, 1816, after C. le Brun.
  • Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.
  • A snake charmer with three snakes and attendant. Gouache drawing.
  • Directions for using 'Stypven' brand Russell Viper Venom (not for injection).
  • Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people carry their wounded towards it. Etching.
  • Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent before the writhing multitude afflicted with snake-bites. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, ca. 1635-40.
  • Directions for using 'Stypven' brand Russell Viper Venom (not for injection).
  • People writhe in pain among the fiery serpents as Moses produces the brazen serpent. Line engraving after F. Fenzoni.

Works from the collections

30 works

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    Italy: two men try to kill a snake with a boulder; a woman flees from it, but her dog wants to look at it. Etching by M. Ricci.

    Marco Ricci | Date: [1730] | Reference: 2925079i
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    Moses points to the brazen serpent while his people writhe on the ground, besieged by fiery serpents. Etching by G. Cooke, 1816, after C. le Brun.

    Charles Le Brun | Date: 1 April 1816 | Reference: 18329i
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    Moses presents his brazen serpent to the people. Woodcut after Robert Anning Bell, c. 1890.

    Robert Anning Bell | Reference: 18284i
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    Moses and Eleazar show the brazen serpent before the writhing multitude afflicted with snake-bites. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after P.P. Rubens, ca. 1635-40.

    Peter Paul Rubens | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 20541i
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    Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant resembling the fangs of a viper, above, and (below) a viper. Coloured ink drawing, c. 1923, after G.B. Della Porta.

    Giambattista della Porta | Date: 1923 | Reference: 524731i
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Snakes
Brazen serpent
Serpents in the Bible
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