'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Specimen of Galena (lead sulphide)

Specimen of Galena (lead sulphide) here termed 'sulphure of lead

half turned to the viewer's right

'Pudding before Meat'

'London Curtezan'

A bookcase appears behind him and Lubbock's wooded estate is visible through the window

'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Specimen of Galena (lead sulphide)Marine 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)