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Plate 8, Discomedusae
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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)
- Golden Pheasant in the Snow Ito Jakuchu
- Plate 9, Hexacoralla Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 89, Chelonia Ernst Haeckel
- The Tyger William Blake
- The Sleeping Pedlar Robbed by Monkeys Pieter van der Heyden, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- The Pursuit J. J. Grandville
- Plate 62, Nepenthaceae Ernst Haeckel
- Fox (Vulpes vulpes) Jacob Goethals (possibly)