The Coach-Whip Snake (Coluber flagellum)

published 1731-1743

Mark Catesby

Associated Names
Mark Catesby

Artist, English, 1679 - 1749

A long, dark brown snake with a textured pattern is coiled across the central portion of the image, intertwined with a flowering plant featuring bright red and pink blossoms and green leaves. The color palette includes dark brown for the snake, with touches of red and pink from the flowers and leaves in various shades of green. The snake's head is in the upper left corner, while its body curves and loops through the middle to the upper right. The floral plant sits beneath and around the snake, extending upward with some leaves and blossoms visible mostly in the bottom right half of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green

  • Dimensions

    plate: 25.3 × 35 cm (9 15/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 36.7 × 53.7 cm (14 7/16 × 21 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1973.26.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Natural History, Vol. vol.2, no. 54

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1771

  • Catesby, Mark. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. London: 1771.

Wikidata ID

Q65574789

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