campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel posada It is one of the

It is one of the 100 lithographs in Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature)

or Hoijtema was a Dutch lithographer

actual given name 又雄

José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) was a Mexican artist and printmaker who is considered one of the most influential figures in Mexican art at the turn of the twentieth century

Title: Two Dragons

campanariae polyp cnidaria fine art print ernst haeckel posada It is one of theDelicate 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