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Plate 28, Discomedusae
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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)
- Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Jacob Goethals (possibly)
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 6 Mark Catesby
- Long-Tsing-Yu II François-Nicolas Martinet
- Louis Renard's Fish, Folio 14 Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XXII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Long-Tsing-Yu I François-Nicolas Martinet
- Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake Maria Sibylla Merian
- Plate 69, Hexacoralla Ernst Haeckel