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Plate 70, Ophiodea
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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)
- Fly, Caterpillar, Pear, and Centipede Joris Hoefnagel
- Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, Plate II Charles Owen
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XX Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 79, Lacertilia Ernst Haeckel
- April Fools (Fish of April) J. J. Grandville
- Jumansubo Plain in Susaki near Fukagawa Utagawa Hiroshige
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLVII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Great Barrier Reef Corals William Saville-Kent