Copepoda - Calanus horse Creator: Siegmund von Suchodolski

Creator: Siegmund von Suchodolski

There are no markings on the reverse of the poster

He also worked extensively in watercolor

living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period

William Morris was a British textile designer

Copepoda - Calanus horse Creator: Siegmund von SuchodolskiThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100