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Plate 98, 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)
- The Black Cat Aubrey Beardsley
- Plate 71, Stephoidea Ernst Haeckel
- Surinam Caiman biting South American False Coral Snake Maria Sibylla Merian
- April Fools (Fish of April) J. J. Grandville
- Carp Swimming Against a Waterfall Utagawa Hiroshige
- The Tyger William Blake
- Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, v2. app. Tab 20 Mark Catesby
- Tulips, Fly, Kidney Bean, and Bean Joris Hoefnagel