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Octopod Collection

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus

Octopus
Watercolour 401 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

Background imageOctopod Collection: Argonauta hians, brown paper nautilus

Argonauta hians, brown paper nautilus
A pair of brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians). This delicate-shelled cephalopod is distributed in warm seas globally

Background imageOctopod Collection: Seven squid and octopuses

Seven squid and octopuses
Tableau 2 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Background imageOctopod Collection: Argonauta argo (female), octopus

Argonauta argo (female), octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Eledone cirrhosa, Curled Octopus

Eledone cirrhosa, Curled Octopus
Illustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia

Background imageOctopod Collection: Tremoctopus velifer, octopus

Tremoctopus velifer, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Philonexia catenulatus, octopus

Philonexia catenulatus, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus vulgaris, octopus

Octopus vulgaris, octopus
A glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Argonauta argo (males), octopus

Argonauta argo (males), octopus
A glass model of two octopuses, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous

Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous

Background imageOctopod Collection: Plate 76 from the John Reeves Collection

Plate 76 from the John Reeves Collection
John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Background imageOctopod Collection: Darwins Octopus

Darwins Octopus
A specimen held in the Natural History Museum, London, of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus ceiling panel

Octopus ceiling panel
A photograph of one of the decorative ceiling panels from the roof of the Natural History Museums Central Hall. Showing a black and white painting of an octopus

Background imageOctopod Collection: Terracotta panels

Terracotta panels
Detail of terracotta panels in front galleries, showing marine life. Alfred Waterhouse (1830-1905) designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus vulgaris, common octopus

Octopus vulgaris, common octopus
Octopus model with Homarus gammarus, European lobster in Origin of Species Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus sp

Octopus sp
Plate 126 from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Background imageOctopod Collection: Octopus illustration

Octopus illustration
Plate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library

Background imageOctopod Collection: Squid illustration

Squid illustration
Tableau 3 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759


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