Siphonophorae - Jellyfish Size:50×70 cm but it is just as

but it is just as at home in a botanical-themed bathroom

Equal parts beautiful and slightly sinister

Little was known about cephalopoda in the 1900s

the strong contours of Japanese woodcuts

a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art

Siphonophorae - Jellyfish Size:50×70 cm but it is just asAmong the strangest creatures Haeckel ever drew, the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one relatives of the Portuguese man o' war. In this spectacular plate, their chains of bells, floats and trailing filaments stretch and branch across the sheet in delicate pinks, blues and violets, a composition that is as biologically astonishing as it is beautiful. The illustration belongs to