Ostraciidae - Fish Size:30×40 cm There is a richness and

There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies

Haeckel's influential series of 100 lithographs

creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre

It works brilliantly in a study

Ostraciidae - Fish Size:30×40 cm There is a richness andBoxfish are the eccentrics of the reef rigid, geometric and patterned like something designed rather than evolved and this Haeckel plate makes the most of their charm. Trunkfish and their relatives are arranged across the sheet in yellows, blues and spotted designs, their boxy, armoured bodies giving the composition an almost playful, graphic quality. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst Haeckel's series of