campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel posada License: CC0 1

License: CC0 1

José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was a Mexican artist and printmaker who is considered one of the most influential figures in Mexican art at the turn of the twentieth century

actual given name 又雄

or Hoijtema was a Dutch lithographer

Title: „The Brierwood Pipe“

campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel posada License: CC0 1Delicate 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