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Octopuses

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  • A man representing the remedy Finidol rescues another man from the clutches of an octopus whose tentacles represent rheumatic and arthritic diseases. Colour lithograph after René Vincent.
  • An octopus bearing the letters 'AIDS' enveloping the world representing a warning about protecting from AIDS by the Kuwait National AIDS Committee. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.
  • A man representing the remedy Finidol rescues another man from the clutches of an octopus whose tentacles represent rheumatic and arthritic diseases. Colour lithograph after René Vincent.
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Catalogue

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    Outlandish : strange foreign bodies / Phillip Warnell with Jean-Luc Nancy.

    Warnell, Phillip. | Date: 2010
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    A man representing the remedy Finidol rescues another man from the clutches of an octopus whose tentacles represent rheumatic and arthritic diseases. Colour lithograph after René Vincent.

    Vincent, René, 1879-1936. | Date: [1920?] | Reference: 47564i
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    A woman personifying France (?) rescuing a baby from the tentacles of an octopus representing tuberculosis. Colour lithograph by L. Cappiello, ca. 1922.

    Cappiello, Leonetto, 1875-1942. | Date: [1922?] | Reference: 47573i
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    Surrealism and science: the weird world of Jean Painleve.

    | Date: 1995
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    On the structure and characters of the octopus ventricosus, Gr. (Sepia octopodia, Pent.), a rare species of octopus from the Firth of Forth / by R. E. Grant.

    | Date: [1827]
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