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  • Two poisonous snakes (Indian cobras): four figures showing the snakes' hoods, seen from above and below, indicating the distinctive 'spectacle'and 'V-shaped' markings. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake, brown in colour with darker oblong patches: includes three outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake, Indian cobra: illustration shows 'spectacle' marking on the snake's hood and includes two details of the head and an outline drawing of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • The strangling of a poisonous snake, representing the crushing of tuberculosis. Colour lithograph after G. Dorival and G. Capon, ca. 1918.
  • A poisonous snake, green in colour with yellow and green underbelly: includes two outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake, dark brown in colour with pale patches edged with black: includes outline drawing of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake, dark brown in colour with darker oblong patches edged with white: includes three outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake, yellow in colour, with broad grey cross-banded markings: includes a detail of the tail and two outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A poisonous snake (bungarus caeruleus), dark in colour, with narrow white cross-banded markings: includes two outline drawings of the head and one of the tail. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • A medicine vendor selling antidotes to snake poison. Etching by G.M. Mitelli.
  • 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 J. Fayrer.
  • 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 J. Fayrer.
  • 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 J. Fayrer.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: while he lives as a hermit in a cave near Subiaco, a raven protects him from poisoned bread (represented by a snake emerging from a loaf). Engraving by J. Frey after G. Anziani after Carlo Cignani.
  • Snake charmer and family. Gouache drawing.
  • 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.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Saint Luis Beltrán. Oil painting after F. Zurbarán.
  • Left, poisonous fang of an asp viper; right, head of an adder, with mouth wide open and tongue protruding. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Snake charmer with wife holding the snake. Gouache drawing.
  • Reserve poison fangs in Ruff Adder's skull
  • A snake charmer with three snakes and attendant. Gouache drawing.
  • Directions for using 'Stypven' Russell Viper Venom (not for injection).
  • Directions for using 'Stypven' Russell Viper Venom (not for injection).
  • 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 points to the brazen serpent while his people carry their wounded towards it. Etching.