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.
Radiolaria
Single-celled sea life, built like cathedral glass.
- Work
- Ernst Haeckel, Spumellaria (Radiolaria), from Kunstformen der Natur
- Artist / creator
- Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834–1919)
- Origin & date
- Kunstformen der Natur, 1899–1904
- Held by
- Kunstformen der Natur (Tafel 22, Spumellaria)
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 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Radiolaria are single-celled ocean creatures the size of a speck of dust, and each one spins itself a mineral skeleton of almost unbelievable geometric intricacy — spheres inside spheres, radiating spines, lattices like blown glass. Haeckel, who first described hundreds of species, arranged them here in flawless symmetry across the plate, and in doing so made one of the most influential images in Art Forms in Nature. When the architect René Binet designed the gateway to the 1900 Paris World’s Fair, he modelled it directly on one of Haeckel’s radiolarians. Proof, drawn from a drop of seawater, that nature engineers beauty at every scale — even the ones no eye can see.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Kunstformen der Natur (Tafel 22, Spumellaria)’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.
