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Image number: RS.9933
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‘Octopus macropus’ [Atlantic white-spotted octopus]
Date
1848
Creator
Antoine Toussaint de Chazal (1793 - 1854, French) , Printmaker
After
Jean Baptiste Verany (1800 - 1865, French) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
39244
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Dimensions
height (print): 275mm
width (print): 412mm
width (print): 412mm
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Description
Marine zoological study of the Atlantic white-spotted octopus (Octopus macropus). The cephalopod is presented with details views, including from beneath and in motion.
Plate 24 in the section “G.Poulpe” from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786-1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Paris, 1848). Various inscriptions, including below: “Verany ad Nat. delin. Chaxal ad lapid. Delin. O.Macropus, Risso.”
Plate 24 in the section “G.Poulpe” from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac (1786-1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) (Paris, 1848). Various inscriptions, including below: “Verany ad Nat. delin. Chaxal ad lapid. Delin. O.Macropus, Risso.”
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