Pen and wash drawing by malacologist Pierre Dénys de Montfort, 1801, from the descriptions of French sailors reportedly attacked by such a creature off the coast of Angola.
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1810
from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Colossal_octopus_by_Pierre_Denys_de_Montfort.jpg" class="extiw" title="en:Image:Colossal octopus by Pierre Denys de Montfort.jpg">en:Image:Colossal octopus by Pierre Denys de Montfort.jpg</a> where it was uploaded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:ffdhhlSalleman" class="extiw" title="en:user:ffdhhlSalleman">en:user:ffdhhlSalleman</a>.