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Plate 70, Ophiodea
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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)
- Portion of Beetle's Eye Arthur E. Smith
- Plate 58, Tineida Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 60, Echinidea Ernst Haeckel
- Frogs, Prone and Supine Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta
- Plate 8, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- European Columbines and Sweet Cherry Joris Hoefnagel
- Long-Tsing-Yu I François-Nicolas Martinet
- Like His Grandfather Francisco de Goya