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Snakes

Images

  • The heads and upper palates with fangs of two snakes. Engraving, ca. 1796.
  • A salesman in Rome with a snake selling amulets as antidotes or prophylactics against snake-bite to a crowd of people. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1821.
  • Snake, grey-green in colour. Watercolour by Bhawani Das, 1782.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • Two roundels: above, a man supported by his wife and children prays before an altar of Aesculapius; below, a garland of medicinal plants, and angels representing pharmacy and botany. Coloured engraving by P. Lenormand, ca. 1830, partly after N. Guérin.
  • Carpentry: a lathe, with an assortment of tools and a snake (above). Engraving after L.J. Goussier.
  • Moses with his rod and his brazen serpent. Engraving by J. Hall, 1793, after B. West.
  • Snake. Etching, 18--?.
  • An Indian snake, Bodroo Pam. Coloured engraving by W. Skelton, ca. 1796.
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
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    A prize medal of the Medical Society of London; on the front is Queen Charlotte and on reverse is Hygieia with a serpent. Engraving by R.G. Reeve.

    | Reference: 21638i
    • Books
    • Online

    The life- history of British serpents and their local distribution in the British Isles / by Gerald R. Leighton.

    Leighton, Gerald R. (Gerald Rowley), 1868- | Date: 1901
    • Pictures

    Flower and roots of a red lily (Lilium carolinianum) and a whampum snake (Coluber fasciatus). Etching by M. Catesby, c.1731, after himself.

    Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749. | Date: [1731-1749] | Reference: 21005i
    • Books

    Monograph of the sea-snakes (Hydrophiidae) / by Malcolm Smith.

    Smith, Malcolm, 1875-1958. | Date: [1964]
    • Books

    Giftschlangen und Schlangengift / von H. Hediger.

    Hediger, H. | Date: 1934
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