'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm A newspaper seller

A newspaper seller

inclosing an account of the Fire-Ball seen Dec

half turned to the viewer's right

- known as Kim and owned by Miss Violet Drummond-Dick

'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm A newspaper sellerMarine zoological study of the violet blanket octopus (Tremoctopus violenceus). The cephalopod is presented from above with an inset detail of the underside, including funnel, anus and gonads. Plate 20 in the section 'G. Poulpe' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857)