copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm their care and propagation :

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

Original by The Cleveland Museum of Art

including Life-Size Black Bass

Date: 1915

Creator: Abbott Handerson Thayer

copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm their care and propagation :This 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