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OctopusWatercolour 401 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection
Argonauta hians, brown paper nautilusA pair of brown paper nautilus (Argonauta hians). This delicate-shelled cephalopod is distributed in warm seas globally
Seven squid and octopusesTableau 2 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759
Argonauta argo (female), octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Eledone cirrhosa, Curled OctopusIllustration from the Thomas Hardwicke Collection, marked Sepia octopodia
Tremoctopus velifer, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Philonexia catenulatus, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Octopus vulgaris, octopusA glass model of an octopus, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Argonauta argo (males), octopusA glass model of two octopuses, created by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in the late nineteenth century and held at the Natural History Museum, London
Detail of terracotta moulding of an octopus in the Waterhous
Plate 76 from the John Reeves CollectionJohn Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
Darwins OctopusA specimen held in the Natural History Museum, London, of an octopus collected by Charles Darwin
Octopus ceiling panelA 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
Terracotta panelsDetail 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
Octopus vulgaris, common octopusOctopus model with Homarus gammarus, European lobster in Origin of Species Gallery at the Natural History Museum, London
Octopus spPlate 126 from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57
Octopus illustrationPlate 20, watercolour by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker from the plate collection of the Murray Library
Squid illustrationTableau 3 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759