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Plate 57, cirripedia
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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)
- Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake Maria Sibylla Merian
- Fashionable Battle of Frogs: I Kawanabe Kyōsai
- Portrait of a Girl and her Dog Jean Jacques Lequeu
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XX Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Skating Owls Adriaen van de Venne
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v2. app. Tab 8 Mark Catesby
- European Columbines and Sweet Cherry Joris Hoefnagel
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLVIII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)