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Ahaetulla prasina, Short-nosed vine snakeHand-coloured engraving from An account of Indian Serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel. The Patrick Russell Collection 1796 Date: 1796
Bungarus fasciatus, Banded KraitSnake skin mounted on paper, The Patrick Russell Collection c.1790 Date: circa 1790
Agkistrodon piscivorus, cottonmouth snakeDrawing 61 (Ewan 50) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
Naja najaHand-coloured engraving from the Patrick Russell Collection
Hydrophis cyanocinctus, Annulated sea snakeHand-coloured engraving from An account of Indian Serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel. The Patrick Russell Collection 1796 Date: 1796
Sarracenia flava, yellow pitcher plant & Sarracenia purpureaNelumbo lutea, American lotus & Triodopsis albolabris, land snail & Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snake. Drawing 30 (Ewan 22) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
Trimeresurus albolabris, bamboo pit viperPhotograph of a bamboo pit viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) wrapped around a tree branch
Philothamnus irregularis, western green snakeWestern Green Snake specimen in spirit jar held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London. This image is on display in the link corridor from the Life Galleries to the Darwin Centre
Bungarus fasciatus, banded krait (top)LS Plate 109 from the John Reeves Collection of Zoological Drawings from Canton, China 1774-1856
Passenger pigeon designDrawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881
Clemmys guttata, spotted turtle
Green caterpillar & adult mothSee 29704 Erinnyis ello, on Royal/Spanish jasmine, Jasminum grandiflorum, coral snake Corallus enhydris below. Plate 46 from Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium by Maria Sybilla Merian
Pentalinon luteum, hammock vipers tailIllustration by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) from Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Tropidolaemus wagleri, green pit viperAlso known as the temple viper or Waglers pit viper. It is a tree dwelling snake found in South-east Asia. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London
Man wearing snake, 1930sThis young man, possibly a junior member of the Zoology Department, is posing with a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) that presumably had just arrived at the Museum
Raper drawing No. 10An illustration of Cobras, a fortified island close to the city in Rio de Janeiro 1789
Lampropeltis getulus, chain snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Chain Snake
Opheodrys sp. green snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Green Snake
Elaphe guttata, corn snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Corn Snake
Thamnophis sp. garter snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Green Spotted Snake
Thamnophis sp. ribbon-snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Ribbon Snake
Nerodia erythrogaster, copperbelly snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Copperbelly Snake
Crotalus sp. water viperHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Water Viper
Farancia sp. mud snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled Wampum Snake
Crotalus adamanteus, eastern diamondback rattlesnakeDrawing 60 (Ewan 50) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram
Crotalus sp. brown viper
Crotalus sp. rattlesnakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Rattlesnake
Thamnophis sauritus, spotted ribbonsnakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Spotted Ribbon-Snake
Cemophora coccinea, scarlet snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Bead Snake
Masticophis flagellum, coachwhip snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Coach-Whip Snake
Crotalus sp. black viperHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled The Black Viper
Storeria sp. brown snakeHand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby. Entitled Little Brown Bead Snake
Nerodia sipedon, water snakeA group of North American water snakes neatly coiled to fit into a storage jar. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London
Naja haje haje, Egyptian cobraAn Egyptian cobra emerging from a ceramic urn and coiling into its characteristic aggressive hissing stance
Bardick SnakeOne of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert
Coluber laticaudatus, colubrine amphibious sea snakeFf. 170. Watercolour painting by George Forster annotated coluber laticaudatus and made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)
Dendroaspis angusticeps, green mambaPhotograph of the skull of a green mamba, showing the snakes upper jaw fangs
Crotalaria verrucosa, blue rattlesnakeFinished watercolour by Fred Polydore Nodder from an original outine drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771