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Plate 67, Chiroptera
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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)
- Plate 79, Lacertilia Ernst Haeckel
- Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake Maria Sibylla Merian
- Spider's Foot and Part of Leg Arthur E. Smith
- Figure Riding a Pheasant on the Beach Bernard Essers
- European Columbines and Sweet Cherry Joris Hoefnagel
- Plate 74, Orchideae Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 30, Echinidea Ernst Haeckel
- White Heron John James Audubon