The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
Jellyfish — Discomedusae
The hidden symmetry of the deep, drawn by a scientist.
- Work
- Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature)
- Artist / creator
- Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834–1919)
- Origin & date
- Kunstformen der Natur, 1899–1904
- Held by
- Kunstformen der Natur (plate 8)
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 12x16 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
The biologist Ernst Haeckel believed nature was an artist, and in Art Forms in Nature he set out to prove it — rendering jellyfish, radiolarians, and orchids with a precision so exquisite it tipped into the sublime. His medusae hang in the dark like chandeliers, their trailing tentacles arranged with almost deliberate grace. One of them, Desmonema annasethe, he named for his beloved late wife, its flowing filaments a quiet memorial. Science and grief and design, fused on a single plate. The direct ancestor of the modern love of symmetry.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Kunstformen der Natur (plate 8)’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
