peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel italy Original from Wikimedia Commons

Original from Wikimedia Commons

and in 1937 more than 600 of his works were sold or destroyed

Title: Calavera Tapatia

from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)

Copyright: Public Domain CC0 ImageSource: Yale University Art Gallery

peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel italy Original from Wikimedia CommonsThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part