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56 artworks. Compare how artists drew it, or what it meant to them.

Style 1 13

The Corn Snake (Coluber fulvius?)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art
Serpent
Jacques Callot · 1628
National Gallery of Art
Carastes (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Faun Fighting a Snake
c. 1500 - c. 1550
Rijksmuseum
Faun Attacking a Snake
Unknown; Andrea Mantegna (Italian, about 1431–1506) · 1470–1500
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Chimpanzee and the Boa Constrictor
Frederick Stuart Church, American, 1842–1924; Dr. Dudley Tenney, New York City · 1870s
Smithsonian
Man Entwined by Two Snakes
Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (Italian, 1483/84–1539) · c. 1527
Cleveland Museum of Art
Manasa, The Snake Goddess
Eastern India, Bengal, Kolkata, Kalighat · c. 1890
Cleveland Museum of Art
Rucela (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Nadera (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Pister (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Pareas (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Arabesque Design
Etienne de Lavallée, French, 1735 – 1802; Laurent Guyot, French, 1756 - 1808 · 1780s
Smithsonian

Style 2 10

Root Rattlesnake
Unidentified · 1930s
Smithsonian
Snake, lizard, frog and mouse
c. 1550 - c. 1599
Rijksmuseum
skulptur, orm, snake, sculpture
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Serpent Headdress
Africa, West Africa, Guinea, possibly Baga-style maker · late 1800s–early 1900s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Plate 59: Snakes and a Lizard
Joris Hoefnagel · c.1575/1590s
National Gallery of Art
Earring Design, Snake Holding a Pearl
1830s, 1840s
Smithsonian
Untitled (Snake Trivet)
Unidentified · 1920s, 1870s
Smithsonian
Pipe in the Form of Coiled Snake
England, Staffordshire, late 18th-early 19th Century · 1780–1820
Cleveland Museum of Art
Box for a Mummified Animal with Snake Figure
Egyptian · Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
Art Institute of Chicago
Plate 60: Four Small Snakes
Joris Hoefnagel · c.1575/1590s
National Gallery of Art

Style 3 6

The Hog-nose Snake (Boa contortrix)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art
The Coach-whip Snake (Coluber flagellum)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art
Fig. VII Copperhead Snake among dead leaves, study folder for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom
Abbott Handerson Thayer, born Boston, MA 1849-died Dublin, NH 1921 · 1920s, 1840s
Smithsonian
Snake and lizard by a bush
1788
Rijksmuseum
The Hog-nose Snake (Boa contortrix)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art
The Spotted Ribbon Snake (Coluber nebulosus?)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art

Style 4 5

Box for a Mummified Animal with Cobra Figure
Egyptian · Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
Art Institute of Chicago
Coiled Snake
Colombia · before 1921
Cleveland Museum of Art
Amulet of a Uraeus with Sun Disk
Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 26–31 (664–332 BCE)
Art Institute of Chicago
Cane with Indian, Entwined Man and Snake and Diverse Animals
Unidentified · 1890s, 1870s
Smithsonian
Amulet of a Cobra
Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21–25 (1070–656 BCE)
Art Institute of Chicago

Named in the museum's description 22

The snake is small, hidden or only part of the story in these works, so they're shown whole.

Aspis (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
The Glass Snake (Anguis ventralis)
Mark Catesby · published 1731-1743
National Gallery of Art
Cornuti (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Boa (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Carastes (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Nadera (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Emorois (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
ormskinn, snake skin
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Jaculum (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Dipsas (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Boa (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Situla (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Rucela (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Pareas (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Fight between Elephants and Snakes
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605; Karel van Mallery, Flemish, 1571 – 1635; Philip Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612 · 1590s
Smithsonian
Situla (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
skulptur, figur, orm, figure, sculpture, snake, statue
Sweden
Museum of Ethnography
Amulet of a Serpent on a Stela
Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period (about 1070–664 BCE)
Art Institute of Chicago
Berus (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Chelidrus (kind of snake)
Netherlands · 1350
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Emorois (kind of snake)
Netherlands
KB, National Library of the Netherlands
Naine maoga
Tuul, Välko (autor)
Art Museum of Estonia