siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm introducing a new approach to

introducing a new approach to kachōga or kacho (bird-and-flower painting)

lithographer

he married Margaret Selby

symmetrical figures give this print a dramatic

and cartoons

siphonophorae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm introducing a new approach toAmong the strangest creatures Haeckel ever drew, the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one relatives of the Portuguese man o' war. In this spectacular plate, their chains of bells, floats and trailing filaments stretch and branch across the sheet in delicate pinks, blues and violets, a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful. The illustration belongs to