Snake Collection (page 2)

The Buskah (Snake)

Snake Charmer in India - Victorian period

Snake charmer, India

India - Calcutta snake charmers early 1900s

Zoo keeper with python at London Zoo, Victorian period. Date: late 19th century

The Great Aztec Temple at Tenochtitlan. Dedicated to the god of war. Built in a large square, with an ashlar wall, carved on the outside with different loops of chained snakes. Engraving

The Snake
A colourful book illustration of a petrified looking man, being consistricted by a huge, green snake that is coiled around his body. Date: circa 1917

Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, Japanese traditional story
Kabuki actor as Kiyohime, in a Japanese traditional story involving the beautiful daughter of a village magistrate who falls in love with a young priest

Advert, Hingston & Company, Chemists and Druggists, Cheltenham. Date: 1826

A selection of salon shoes. Date: 1930

Death of Cleopatra (69-30 BC). Engraving. Colored
Cleopatra VII Philopator (69-30 BC). Queen of Egypt. The death of Cleopatra. Engraving in The Artistic Illustration, 1888. Colored

Book of the Dead. Fragment. Egypt
Fragment of a text of the Book of the Dead. Ink on papyrus. Around 1480 BC. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Cartoon, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by James Gillray. Depicting Napoleon (ironically in the role of John Bunyan's pilgrim, Christian) having to confront an array of problems

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Campesino, defiende con las armas al gobierno que te dio la tierra (Farmer, defend with arms the government that gave the land to you). Poster. SPAIN. Barcelona

Head Keeper with Snake at London Zoo 1896
Mr. Tyrrell the Head Keeper of the Reptile House at London Zoo, holding a 9 feet long boa constrictor, that is coiling round his neck. Date: 1896

Selection page of British reptiles. Date: 1881

Burmese snake charmers Date: 1916

ROMAN FUNERAL IMAGE
A Roman funeral image, possibly representing the Lord of the Underworld before whom the dead individual must come for judgment Date:

ARISTAEUS & EURYDICE
Aristaeus takes a fancy to Eurydice : fleeing his unwelcome attentions, she treads on a snake which bites her fatally : she dies, and Aristaeus is punished Date:

Snake charmers in Burma. Date: circa 1916

Common Lizard and Grass Snake by David Parry

Snake-Charmers in India
Snake-charmers handle the cobra with impunity as they play their instruments. Date: late 1890s

Snake charmers, musical instruments, India, c. 1880 s
Snake charmers, musical instruments, India, c.1880 s

Scenes in Egypt, 1820
The great ruins of the Colossi of Memnon in Luxor in south Egypt 73, raft of earthenware pitchers on the Nile 74, and women carrying water pitchers on their heads 74

Wart snake or little filesnake, Acrochordus granulatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy

Mud lobster and mud shrimp
Mud lobster, Thalassina anomala 1, and mud shrimp, Upogebia stellata 2. Talassina scorpionoide, Gebia stellata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario

Saw-scaled viper and Madagascar leafnose snake
Saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus 1, and Madagascar leafnose snake, Langaha madagascariensis 2. Scitale zigzag, Langaha a muso appuntato

Ring-necked spitting cobra and Martinique lancehead
Ring-necked spitting cobra, Hemachatus haemachatus 1, and Martinique lancehead, Bothrops lanceolatus 2. Vipera emacate, Trigonocefalo ferro di lancia

House gecko and broad-tailed gecko
House gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus 1, and broad-tailed gecko, Phyllurus platurus 2. Tarantola delle case, Filluro della Nuova Olanda

Cartoon, Queen Victoria and her Ministers - (left to right) Lord John Russell, Earl of Mulgrave, Lord Brougham, Lord Melbourne, Duchess of Kent (mother), Queen Victoria, Earl of Durham

Watching Snake-hips Johnson at the Cafe de Paris
Impression by Feliks Topolski for The Sketch magazine in their regular series on Cabaraets of Wartime London, of Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson (1914 1941)

Common adder and Ringed snake. Date: 1843

Common death adder, Acanthopis antarcticus (Browns acanthopis, Acanthopis brownii). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn

Snake blenny, lesser spiny eel and wolf fish
Snake blenny, Ophidion barbatum 73, lesser spiny eel, Macrognathus aculeatus 74, wolf fish, Anarhichas lupus 75, and its jaw and teeth 76, 77

Red-tailed pipe snake, Cylindrophis ruffus (Cylindrophis resplendens). Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Sandler from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Green vine snake or flatbread snake, Oxybelis fulgidus (Dryophis fulgidus). Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Sandler from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History

Common European viper or adder, Vipera berus (Pelias chersea). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches

Desert horned viper, Cerastes cerastes (Gonyechis cerastes). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches

Green banded urania moth, rattlesnake and snail-eater snake
Green banded urania moth, Urania leilus, rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus, and snail-eater snake, perhaps Dipsas catesbyi. Copperplate engraving by Barlow after an original illustration by Captain John

Young smooth snake, Coronella austriaca (Dumfriesshire snake, Coluber dumfrisiensis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new

Cape snake lizard, Chamaesaura anguina (anguine lizard, Lacerta anguina). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia, London

Common snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina (Snake tortoise, Testudo serpentina). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Heath after an illustration by George Shaw from his General Zoology, Amphibia

Egyptian religious monuments
Egyptian three-headed monument symbolizing the past, present and future 1, Egyptian monument in metal to the god Apis from the Museum Gualtieri 2

Heads of Egyptian gods and goddesses
Statue of the Egyptian goddess Isis in granite from the villa Palombara 1, Egyptian deity in the Kircherian Museum 2, and Egyptian deity found in the Temple of Canopus in Tivoli 3

Portrait medallion of the Medusa. Chromolithograph by W. Griggs from Frederick Rathbones Old Wedgwood, the Decorative or Artistic Ceramic Work Produced by Josiah Wedgwood, Quaritch, London, 1898

Taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI. 5, Pompeii
Thermolopium or taberna near the fountain of Mercury, VI.5, Pompeii. A man cooks food at a stove, while a women serves a customer using scales

Banded krait, Bungarus fasciatus (Fasciated boa, Boa fasciata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from John Mason Goods Pantologia, a New Encyclopedia, G. Kearsley, London, 1813

Ringed caecilian, Siphonops annulatus. Handcolored engraving by Visto after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle

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