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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)
- Dog's Head Julie de Graag
- Long-Tsing-Yu IV François-Nicolas Martinet
- Plate 90, Cystoidea Ernst Haeckel
- Foot of Water Beetle Arthur E. Smith
- Louis Renard's Fish, Plate XVI Louis Renard (after Samuel Fallours)
- Plate 28, Discomedusae Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 30, Echinidea Ernst Haeckel
- Plate 53, Prosobranchia Ernst Haeckel