Copepoda - Calanus newyork For collectors of Haeckel's marine

For collectors of Haeckel's marine art

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shells and insects (including the popular fin-de-siècle motifs butterflies and dragonflies)

Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̩l ˈkleː]

Copepoda - Calanus newyork For collectors of Haeckel's marineThis 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