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Plate 30, Echinidea
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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)
- Great Barrier Reef Echinoderms William Saville-Kent
- Cats for the Stations of the Tokaido Road Utagawa Kuniyoshi
- Insects and Fish with Island Background Maria Sibylla Merian
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XLII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Greenfinch Barbara Regina Dietzsch
- Trout Utagawa Hiroshige
- Circlet of Hooks on a Scolex Arthur E. Smith
- Dog and Cat Printed by Monogrammist GVL