This illustration of a seventeen foot long tentacle cut off a living giant squid comes from the 1883 book Sea Monsters Umasked. The illustration was made after an actual photo of the limb, for easier reproduction in newspapers.
This copy of the image comes from Sea Monsters Unmasked shared in the Google Books website [Link Here].
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