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Plate 50, Thuroidea
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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)
- Stag Beetle Albrecht Dürer
- Plate 98, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v1. Tab 11 Mark Catesby
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XVII Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Carp Swimming Against a Waterfall Utagawa Hiroshige
- Falcon John James Audubon
- Trout Utagawa Hiroshige
- Plate 79, Lacertilia Ernst Haeckel