'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none Baroque composer Handel (1685-1759) lived

Baroque composer Handel (1685-1759) lived much of his life in England

was hanged at Newgate on 5th December 1831

in the foreground a group of figures appear to be feeding a large black bird

surmounted by a statue of William Kent brandishing a palette

'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none Baroque composer Handel (1685-1759) livedMarine zoological study of the Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). The cephalopod is presented with the two long tentacles extended, therefore a dead specimen. With supporting detail drawings A F. Plate 1 in the section 'Seiche (Sepia)' 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