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Plate 60, 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)
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XIV Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 8, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents, Plate I Charles Owen
- Louis Renard's Fish, Folio 24 Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 74, Orchideae Ernst Haeckel
- Insects and Fish with Island Background Maria Sibylla Merian
- Portrait of a Girl and her Dog Jean Jacques Lequeu
- Plate 68, Batrachia Ernst Haeckel