'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] Size:S: 50 x 40cm Charles Parnell and WH Smith

Charles Parnell and WH Smith at the chess board

Beneath is a dedication to Robert Carter Esquire with a description and coat of arms

Scale 1/2 inch to inch

With a woman and washing line in the foreground

'Octopus macropus' [Atlantic white-spotted octopus] Size:S: 50 x 40cm Charles Parnell and WH SmithMarine 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 Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857) (Paris, 1848). Various