Gallery›Wellcome Collection›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, dark brown in colour with darker oblong patches edged with white: includes three outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.
Wellcome Collection

A poisonous snake, dark brown in colour with darker oblong patches edged with white: includes three outline drawings of the head. Watercolour, ca. 1795.

1795

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Katuka rekula poda ; venemous. Lettering includes the name of the snake written in the Teluga language of South East India. Bears number: VII B.

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