A snake, slender and green in colour, with a darker zig-zag marking along its back and bands of pink running along each side of the upper body. Watercolour, ca. 1795.

Date:: 1795

Reference:: 566993i

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Publication/Creation

1795

Physical description

1 painting (album leaf 33) : watercolour ; sheet 46.2 x 32.9 cm

Series

Snakes of the Coromandel Coast, India.

Contributors

Patrick Russell

Lettering

Mega rekula poda Bears number: XXXII Lettering includes the name of the snake written in the Telugu language of South East India

Reference

Wellcome Collection 566993i

Type/Technique

Watercolor painting

Languages

English

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