campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel concert Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

Title: The Mummy

It pairs strikingly with Haeckel's sponge and copepod plates for a gallery wall that celebrates the hidden architecture of life

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campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel concert Henry DaniellDelicate 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