Filicinae - Fern Size:30×40 cm Lavastre & Duvignaud from 1883

Lavastre & Duvignaud from 1883 to 1889

Inspired by Japanese prints

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

and took a key role in helping Cleveland’s development as an important watercolor center

established in 1903 by the graphic designer and painter Koloman Moser

Filicinae - Fern Size:30×40 cm Lavastre & Duvignaud from 1883There is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern, and this Haeckel plate celebrates it in lush, layered greens. Fronds arc and curl across the sheet, the tightly coiled fiddleheads set against fully opened leaves so that the whole life of the plant seems to play out in a single image. Ernst Haeckel arranged it with the symmetry and density that make his botanical studies so satisfying to look at. The print is part of