Gallery›Wellcome Collection›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, 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.
Wellcome Collection

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.

1795

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Bungarum pamah ; venemous. Bears number: III. Lettering includes the name of the snake written in the Teluga language of South East India.

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