chelonia turtles fine art print ernst haeckel painting Date: 1910

Date: 1910

A biologist who coined the very term "ecology

and posters

Hung as a pair or trio with Haeckel's jellyfish and siphonophore plates

and worked on theaters and casinos there

chelonia turtles fine art print ernst haeckel painting Date: 1910Ancient, patient and beautifully patterned, sea turtles glide across this Haeckel plate with their shells rendered in intricate mosaics of brown, amber and green. Ernst Haeckel composed the sheet so that each turtle shows off the geometry of its carapace, the scutes fitting together like inlaid tile a reminder of why these animals have fascinated naturalists for centuries. The print is drawn from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), the 100