Kraken or giant cuttlefish attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola. After a description by Pierre Denys de Montfort in his Natural History of the Mollusca. Probably a giant squid, Architeuthis species. Steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839.

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Caption: Kraken or giant cuttlefish attacking a fishing boat off the coast of Angola. After a description by Pierre Denys de Montfort in his Natural History of the Mollusca. Probably a giant squid, Architeuthis species. Steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Mammalia, Edinburgh, 1839.

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Image size: 7094 × 4369 px | 88.7 MB

Print size: 60.1 × 37.0 cm | 2792.9 × 1720.1 in (300 dpi)

Keywords: AMPHIBIOUS CARNIVORA • ANGOLA • ARCHITEUTHIS SPECIES • BEAST • CREATURE • CUTTLEFISH • FISHING BOAT • FISHING-BOAT • FISHINGBOAT • GIANT SQUID • GIGANTIC OCTOPUS • ILLUSTRATION • ILLUSTRATIONS • ILUSTRATION • JAMES STEWART • KRAKEN • MAMMALIA • MAMMALIAN • MAMMALS • MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE • NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MOLLUSCA • NATURALIST'S LIBRARY • PIERRE DENYS DE MONTFORT • ROBERT HAMILTON • SEA MONSTER • SEPIA • SIR WILLIAM JARDINE • STEEL ENGRAVING • W. H. LIZARS