copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm including Life-Size Black Bass

including Life-Size Black Bass

their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria

painter and printmaker

creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre

Original by The Cleveland Museum of Art

copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm including Life-Size Black BassThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100