'Octopus vulagaris' [Common octopus] Product:Canvas the brilliant but unstable leader

the brilliant but unstable leader of what was known as the Fourth Party

View looking across the churchyard

or the self-willed Don-Key'

1782 (c1783)

Church of St Mary Aldermanbury

'Octopus vulagaris' [Common octopus] Product:Canvas the brilliant but unstable leader'Octopus vulagaris' [Common octopus] by Antoine Toussaint de Chazal. Marine zoological study of the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). The cephalopod is presented as a single study, as in life. Plate 11 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