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Plate 38, Peromedusae
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Plate from Ernst Haeckel's visually dazzling Kunstformen der Natur, the Art Forms of Nature, published in 1904. With the assistance of Jena artist-lithographer Adolf Giltsch, Haeckel produced one hundred plates depicting the forms of animal life, mainly marine animals. With this book Haeckel wanted to create an "aesthetics of nature" and to show how the incessant struggle for existence he had learnt from Darwin was in fact producing an endless beauty and variety of forms "Darwin and Humboldt combined together." (Image source: Library of Congress)
- Plate 36, Leptomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Pineapple with Australian and German Cockroaches Maria Sibylla Merian
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 28, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Opium Poppy, Bladder Campion, and Broad Bean Joris Hoefnagel
- Tongue of Honey Bee Arthur E. Smith
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XIV Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Barrier Reef Anemones William Saville-Kent