'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none The painting is inscribed above

The painting is inscribed above with publication and plate details

S Thetis' by Commander J F F de Roos

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

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

he served as its President from 1885 to 1890

'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Finish:none The painting is inscribed aboveMarine 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