leptomedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel bathing and the Museum of Modern

and the Museum of Modern Art

and Richard Harris

Striking vintage cephalopod art for a wall with personality

Haeckel's celebrated portfolio created at the turn of the twentieth century

and the antics of puppetry (Ranson kept a puppet theater in his studio)

leptomedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel bathing and the Museum of ModernSmaller and more intricate than Haeckel's famous disc jellyfish, the leptomedusae in this plate are tiny hydrozoan bells, drawn with a jeweller's attention to detail. Their fine radial canals, fringed margins and threadlike tentacles are arranged in a balanced, almost kaleidoscopic composition, set against a deep background so that each pale bell seems to float and glow. The illustration comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Ernst