Snakes in Art — Page 7

Plaque with head of a king

Relief plaque with Vulture and Cobra on baskets; falcon on opposite

Bust of a royal figure with downward-hanging snake

Antefix, head of Medusa

Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

Spreckles Painter, ca. 450 BCE

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Psiax, ca. 520 BCE

Group of Four Amulets: Cobra, Vulture, Djed Pillar, and Heart

Canaanite Scarab Showing a Prostrate Man under Two Cobras and a Scarab (Emblems of a Ruler)

Scarab seal: lion and snake

Cylinder seal

Feeding Cup

Ritual Scene with Senwosret I

Unfinished hieroglyphs

Magic wand

Openwork stamp seal: figure holding snakes

Openwork stamp seal: figure holding snakes

Double-sided stamp seal: snake behind tree; winged dragon

Snake Dance, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889

Oval basin with lizards, moths, and blue and purple background

Georges Pull, ca. 1860

Southern landscape with a man and a snake

Heinrich Dreber, 1847

The Paradise Lost of John Milton with Illustrations by John Martin

John Martin|John Milton|Charles Whittingham [the younger]|Septimus Prowett|Chatfield & Coleman, 1846

Design for a Fountain with a Shell Basin Supported by Three Dolphins and Surmounted by a Snake Spouting Water

Anonymous, British, 19th century, mid-19th century

Album of Suikoden Portraits with Kyōka Poems (Kyōka suikoden gazōshū) 狂歌水滸伝画像集

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓, 1829 (Bunsei 12)

"Repository for Rubbish, vol. I, L.F.C 1828", Illustration for children's book

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, 1828

Portrait of Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, half-length, an Egyptian landscape below with pyramids and temples and statues including the head and arm of Amenhotep III

M. Fabroni|Sarah Belzoni, 1824

The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent

William Blake|Dante Alighieri, ca. 1825–27

Framed Print

Design for Three Bookcabinets Two Adorned with Eagles and Snakes, the other with Masks, Flames and Grotesques

Anonymous, British, 19th century, early 19th century

Shiva and Parvati

山田常嘉斎作・狩野晴川院筆　満月に鵞鳥図印籠|Inrō with Goose Flying across the Full Moon

Kano Seisen’in, 19th century

Faith and Charity

Félix Lecomte, 1792

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Braving the Night)

The American Rattle Snake

William Richardson|James Gillray, April 12, 1782

Panel

Design for an Urn (recto); Sketches (verso)

Anonymous, French, 18th century, ca. 1775–90

L'Afrique, from the Almanach iconologique

Hubert François Gravelot, ca. 1765–81

Platter (one of a set)

Doccia Porcelain Manufactory|Johann Karl Wendelin Anreiter von Zirnfeld|Marchese Carlo Ginori|Jacopo Ligozzi, ca. 1745

Allegory of Africa, from the Four Continents

Edme Bouchardon|Johann Justin Preissler|Georg Martin Preissler, 1732

Nouveau Livre de Vases

Jean Bernard Toro|Charles Nicolas Cochin I, 1716 or after

The Serpent of Airan

Pierre Hubert Subleyras, 18th century

Three figures and a snake coiled around a staff, surrounded by a landscape, the central figure rests his left hand on a shield and leans toward a bearded figure holding a book, from the series 'The Capricci'

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th century

Cartouche Surmounted by a Bust

Giovanni Larciani ("Master of the Kress Landscapes"), 18th century

Dish

Valance (one of a set of six)

The Death of Cleopatra from a set of The Story of Antony and Cleopatra

Justus van Egmont|Geraert van der Strecken, designed ca. 1650, woven 1650–77

A cartouche with an eagle and a snake, a skull and crossbones at top, wings to either side, from 'Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici' (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1640–60

Plate 6: Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts

Maerten de Vos|Johann Sadeler I|Paulus Fürst, ca. 1628–66

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 101 (recto)

Cesare Vecellio, 1601