Reptile Collection (#16)

Armand Jean Du Plessis, Cardinal et Duc de Richelieu, 1775. Artist: J Collyer
Armand Jean Du Plessis, Cardinal et Duc de Richelieu, 1775. Richelieu (1585-1642) was made a Cardinal in 1622. Minister of state to Louis XIII, he was de facto ruler of France from 1624

Adam and Eve, Tunisia, 5th Century. Located in the Bardo Museum, Tunis

Arabic poster, 19th century. From a private collection

A representation of November, 1757. Artist: Bernard de Montfaucon
A representation of November, 1757. A priest of Isis. A plate from Supplement au livre de L antiquite expliquee et representee en figures, Paris, 1757. Private Collection

Neapolitan fisherman playing with a tortoise, 1833. Artist: Francois Rude
Neapolitan fisherman playing with a tortoise, 1833. Marble sculpture located in the collection at, Louvre, Paris

Cobra sculpture, Tomb of Amenhotep III, Luxor, Egypt. Artist: R Guillemot
Cobra sculpture, Tomb of Amenhotep III, Luxor, Egypt

The Sun God Ra, Boat Scene. Ra is the most central god of the Egyptian pantheon

Ancient Egyptian papyrus of death kneeling before a snake. From the collection of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, Germany

Tomb of Sethi I, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 13th century BC
Tomb of Seti I, Valley of the Kings, Egypt, 13th century BC. Wall painting in the tomb of the 19th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Seti I who ruled Egypt from c1290 until 1279 BC

Boat scene, Tombs of the Nobles, Thebes, Egypt. The ram-headed god Khnum being transported in a boat. The Tombs of the Nobles are tombs of priests

Hichenou, 1828. Artist: Marlet et Cie
Hichenou, 1828. A lithograph from L Inde Francais, 1828. From the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Interior of Temple Apet, Karnack, 1881. Artist: Weber M
Interior of Temple Apet, Karnack, 1881. Published in L Egypt by Gaston Maspero, 1881

Snake Charmer in the second room of Medinet-Habou, 1881. Artist: Weber M
Snake Charmer in the second room of Medinet-Habou, 1881. Published in L Egypt by Gaston Maspero, 1881

Night the Third Narcissa, title-page from the Nights of Edward Youngs Night Thoughts, c1797. Artist: William Blake
Night the Third Narcissa, title-page from the Nights of Edward Youngs Night Thoughts, c1797. In 1795 the bookseller Richard Edwards commissioned Blake to illustrate the nine Nights of Edward Youngs

The Snake Charmer, 1907. Artist: Henri Rousseau
The Snake Charmer, 1907. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris, France

Pectoral, late 19th / 20th century. Artist: Rene Lalique
Pectoral, late 19th/20th century. From the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

Elle 1871. Cartoon depicting an allegorical figure representing the Paris Commune becoming entwined in the coils of a snake with the face of Adolphe Thiers, President of the French Third Republic

Costume design for a costume for a dragon, 16th century. Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldi
Costume design for a costume for a dragon, 16th century. From the Department of Prints and Drawings, Florence

St John the Evangelist with the Poisoned Cup, 1636. Artist: Alonso Cano
St John the Evangelist with the Poisoned Cup, 1636. According to the Bible (Matthew Ch20 v23), a cup of poisoned wine was passed to St John and, as he blessed it

Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850. The central image shows a lobster, crab, turtle, scallops, whelks and prawns, cowrie shells, lobster and crab pots and shrimping nets

Comparison of the teeth of an iguanodon with those of a modern iguana, 1836
Comparison of fossil teeth and nasal horn of an iguanodon and the lower jaw and teeth of a modern iguana, 1836. From Geology and Mineralogy by William Buckland, one of the Bridgewater Treatises

Triceratops, a horned dinosaur, held down by a Tyrannosaur, c1920. Artists reconstruction of a fight between two giant reptiles of the Cretaceous epoch (99, 000, 000-65, 000, 000 years ago)

Immanuel Kant, German philosopher, 1812. Profile portrait surrounded by an Ouroboros, an ancient Egyptian-Greek symbolic serpent with its tail in its mouth devouring itself

Ideal Jurassic landscape in America, 1884. Artist: Othniel Charles Marsh
Ideal Jurassic landscape in America, 1884. From fossil evidence, Othniel Marsh imagined a scene during the late Jurassic epoch 163 to 161 million years ago, with Stegosaurus

Wall- hanging embroidered with Tortoise and Fish from Noin Ula, c1st century BC. Kuraan VI, Northern Mongolia. At Hermitage, Leningrad

Horus presents the deceased to Osiris, Mummy-Case of Pensenhor, Thebes, c900 BC. Osiris as Judge of the Dead, with four Sons of Horus, (Canopic Gods)

Eagle fights a snake, detail of Byzantine Floor Mosaic at Great Palace, Istanbul, 6th century. Reign of Justin, 565-575

Romano-British rendering of Roman God Mars, 3rd century
Roman period. Romano-British rendering of Roman God Mars, 3rd century. Bronze Statuette from cSouthbroom, Wiltshire. British Museum

Tortoise Brooch from a Viking Grave in Norway c10th-11th century. At University Historical Museum. Oslo

Animal in Amber, Norway, Viking Period, 9th century. Amber was traded from the East Baltic. University Historic Museum, Oslo

Naga King on a Guardstone at entrance to Ratanapasada, Anuradhapura, 8-9th century. (20th century). Naga is the Sanskrit and Pali word for a deity or class of entity or being

Minoan snake-goddess, 18th century BC
Faience Minoan snake-goddess or priestess from Knossos, Crete, 18th century BC

A mosaic of Christ dressed as a soldier, 6th century
A mosaic of Christ dressed as a soldier in the Archbishops Chapel in Ravenna, Italy, 6th century

Bronze medallion of the Greek god Apollo and the serpent Python, 15th century. Artist: Antonio de Brescia
Bronze medallion of the Greek god Apollo and the serpent Python, 15th century

Roman statuette of Hercules strangling two snakes
Bronze statuette of Hercules strangling two snakes sent to kill him as a child. The statuette is Roman period, from Ephesus, from the British Museums collection

Roman wall-painting from Pompeii showing Vesuvius, 1st century
Roman wall-painting from Pompeii showing Vesuvius, snake deities, and the genius loci. Now in the National Museum in Naples, 1st century

Roman coins of Julius Caesar, 1st century BC
Roman denarii of Julius Caesar (January 14, 83 BC -August 1, 30 BC). On the left is an allegory of the destruction of evil by good with the snake being destroyed by the elephant

Snake charmer with cobra, in Sri Lanka

Japanese Netsuke of a snake, 19th century
Japanese Netsuke of a snake, one of the twelve animals of the Japanese Zodiac, from the V&As collection, 19th century

Naga, a snake divinity with heads of a five-headed serpent, 1oth century
Depiction of Naga, a snake divinity, overshadowed by the heads of a five-headed serpent, made form sandstone. The right hand holds a rosary and bestows protection

Silver disc brooch of AEdwen, Anglo-Scandinavian, first half of the 11th century. The decoration shows the Viking Ringerike style

The Academicians animal head-post from the Oseburg ship burial
Animal head-post from the Oseburg ship burial, now in the Viking Ships Museum in Oslo

Bronze medallion of Apollo and the serpent Python, 16th century
Bronze medallion of Apollo and the serpent Python, possibly Venetian, currently in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 16th century

Detail of the inside of an Egyptian mummy-case, showing gods of the underworld
Detail of the inside of a mummy-case, showing snake and vulture-headed gods of the underworld. The interiror of the coffin of Ahmose, chief doorkeeper of the temple of Mut at Thebes

Fragment of a Babylonian bowl
Fragment of a steatite Babylonian bowl, in Istanbul Archaeological Museum

Viking walking-stick, 10th century
Viking Walking-stick of maple-wood with Ringerike -style ornament, 10th century

Roman wallpainting showing Mount Vesuvius and Bacchus (Dionysus) or the Genius Loci, Pompeii, Italy
Roman wallpainting, Pompeii, Italy; showing Mount Vesuvius and the figure of Bacchus (Dionysus) god of wine wearing clusters of grapes or of the Genius Loci. The snake is a protective cthonic deity

Statuette of the genie La Balafre, Bactrian, end of 3rd to the start of 2nd millenium BC
Statuette of the genie La Balafre (the scarred one), Bactrian, end of 3rd to the start of 2nd millenium BC. The genies body is covered with snake scales. The scar symbolises a destructive ritual

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