Hugh Honour, The Image of the Black in Western Art Vol. Reginald Grundy, James Ward R.A., his life and works, with a catalogue of his engravings and pictures, Otto limited, London, 1909, p. Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 32, N5055 B7 A06+ Oversize (YCBA Rare Books) Ĭhristie's sale catalogue : Collection of paintings, the original works of that greatly-admired artist, James Ward :, Christie's, London,, Lot. 1803 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 33 x 47 inches (83.8 x 119.4 cm), Frame: 40 1/2 × 53 1/2 inches (102.9 × 135.9 cm) Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection Copyright Status: Public Domain Accession Number: B1981.25.664 Classification: Paintings Collection: Paintings and Sculpture Link to Frame: B1981.25.664FR Subject Terms: brushstrokes | figure study | man | movement | pain | slavery | snake | strangling Access: Not on view Link: Export: XML IIIF Manifest: JSONĬatalogue of the works of british artists placed in the gallery of the British Institution, Pall-Mall, British Institution, London, 1806, p. The Boa Serpent Seizing a Horse, Portrait of Adonis, the Favourite Charger of His late Majesty George the Third a study for a large picture Date: ca. Study for ' The Liboya Serpent Seizing its Prey' Study of a Negro Struggling with a Boa Constrictor for 'A Boa Serpent Seizing a Horse' "It says there's no magical thermostat that keeps the tropics at a reasonable temperature, that they will warm, too, in a global warming world," Huber notes.Īt the same time, he says, it also suggests that if the tropics do warm up a lot during warming events, they can survive those higher temperatures - at least well enough to provide a habitat for giant serpents.Man Struggling with a Boa Constrictor, Study for “The Liboya Serpent Seizing His Prey” Former Title(s): He says that if Head is right about Titanoboa's toasty climate, "that's in some sense bad news for us for the future. That's several degrees warmer than the present-day tropical average and is warmer than scientists believed the tropics ever got, even during ancient periods of greenhouse warming.Ĭonventional wisdom holds that during global warming events, the tropics don't heat up as much as polar or temperate regions, according to climate scientist Matthew Huber of Purdue University. According to his calculations, the average temperature would have been about 90 degrees. In this week's issue of the journal Nature, Head points out that a cold-blooded animal that big would have had to live in a very hot place to survive. It was the largest vertebrate on land after the dinosaurs disappeared and probably would have killed its prey by squeezing them. Head, who specializes in the fossils of giant reptiles, says the snake probably lived part of the time in the water, like present-day anacondas. I said I know this is the world's largest snake." He said he couldn't help but laugh "because it was so ridiculously big. "I just about jumped out of my chair," says paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto, recalling the moment he first saw one of the bones. The spinal column bones were 5 inches across, more than twice the size of the biggest South American boa constrictor or anaconda. Scientists discovered enormous vertebrae from a Titanoboa in a coal mine in Colombia. But for some 20 million years after the dinosaurs disappeared, this 42-foot serpent ruled the land. Not to worry: Titanoboa cerrejonensis lived 60 million years ago and is extinct. The largest known snake that ever lived grew as long as a school bus, was 3 feet thick, weighed over a ton and ate crocodiles - presumably whole and al dente. A live python crawls over the enormous vertebra of Titanoboa.
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