campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm bedroom or living room

bedroom or living room

Date: 1908

The detail invites people to lean in and look closer

Cartoonist Will Eisner was given the brief of making must-read matter for US fighting folk like the witless Joe Dope

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campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm bedroom or living roomDelicate to the point of looking spun from glass, the campanularian hydroids in this plate show a side of the ocean most of us never see. Ernst Haeckel drew these colonial polyps tiny relatives of jellyfish and coral as branching, bell tipped structures that rise like underwater plants, each cup and stem traced with extraordinary patience. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's influential series in which