ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm Title: "Wild Life - The

Title: "Wild Life - The national parks preserve all life"Creator: Frank S NicholsonDate: between 1936 and 1940Place of origin: USAPoster for National Park Service

Experience a piece of artwork that intrigued minds as great as Mark Twain's

Date: 1908

he spent years studying the smallest creatures of the sea and believed their overlooked beauty deserved a place on the wall beside any masterpiece — a conviction that helped inspire the organic motifs of Art Nouveau

ostraciidae fine art print ernst haeckel Size:70×100 cm Title: "Wild Life - TheBoxfish 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