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Plate 72, Muscinae
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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)
- Barn Owl Anonymous
- Plate 63, Basimycetes Ernst Haeckel
- Fruit Bat Skeleton Edouard Joseph d’Alton
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XVII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 82, Hepaticae Ernst Haeckel
- Carp Swimming Against a Waterfall Utagawa Hiroshige
- Louis Renard's Fish, Folio 10 Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Aesculapian Snake Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta