Imagery of sea creatures from Jean Baptiste Vérany’s 1851 work “Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant”. Arted up but otherwise much the same as they are in 2023.

Cephalopodes: Eledon Aldrovandi:Delle Chiaje, Verany delin. ex vero et Chromolithograph in Lit Armanino. (Drawn from life by Verany and Chromolithograph in Lit. Armanino. Image 157. Plate 2 of Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/157/mode/1up

Cephalopodes: Octopus tetracirrhus : Delle Chiaje (left, 1 and 2) and Octopus Alderii”: Verany (right, 3). Image 169. Plate 7. Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/169/mode/1up

Cephalopodes: Octopus macropus: Risso. Verany delin. ex vero et Chromolithograph in Lit Armanino. (Drawn from life by Verany and Chromolithograph in Lit. Armanino. Image 175. Plate 10 of Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/174/mode/1up

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Cephalopodes: Histioteuthis; Bonelliana. Ferus. Image 196. Plate 19. Mollusques méditeranéens; observés, décrits, figurés, et chromolithographiés d’après le vivant.1852. Chromolithograph. Collections of and digitalized by the Smithsonian Institution. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831#page/196/mode/1up

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