Saw-scaled viper Ferrari 250 LM Two gaolers molesting the wives

Two gaolers molesting the wives and daughters of debtors at Fleet Prison

apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace

A knife grinder sharpening a knife on Whitehall

August 1955

Saw-scaled viper Ferrari 250 LM Two gaolers molesting the wivesFull body study of a Saw scaled viper ('Echis carinata') with two head studies and one body detail showing scalation, including the saw scales from which the reptile takes its common name, includes details of specimen size. The reptile is noted as being drawn from life. This painting forms plate 12 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