campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel concert Before / After

Before / After

The definitive piece of vintage jellyfish wall art

Henry Daniell

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campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel concert Before / AfterDelicate 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