The Coach-whip Snake (Coluber flagellum), published 1731-1743

Not on View

etching and engraving with hand coloring on laid paper

plate: 25.6 x 35.6 cm (10 1/16 x 14 in.)

sheet: 35.6 x 52.4 cm (14 x 20 5/8 in.)

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

1991.163.64

Mark Catesby (artist) English, 1679 - 1749

center in plate: MC; lower left in plate: Lychnis &c.; lower right in plate: Anguis &c.; upper left in plate: 54

Dr. and Mrs. George Benjamin Green, Virginia; gift to NGA, 1991.

Green, George Benjamin, Dr. and Mrs.

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