'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none circa 1953

circa 1953

Nilton Santos

S Thetis' by Commander J F F de Roos

surmounted by a statue of William Kent brandishing a palette

was hanged at Newgate on 5th December 1831

'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none circa 1953Marine zoological study of the Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). The cephalopod is presented with the two long tentacles extended, therefore a dead specimen. With supporting detail drawings A F. Plate 1 in the section 'Seiche (Sepia)' 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