Jellyfish — Discomedusae
Ernst Haeckel (1834 to 1919), 1899–1904
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 183 dpi, good. Trimmed 4.3% to the shape of the print.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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The biologist Ernst Haeckel believed nature was an artist, and in Art Forms in Nature he set out to prove it — rendering jellyfish, radiolarians, and orchids with a precision so exquisite it tipped into the sublime. His medusae hang in the dark like chandeliers, their trailing tentacles arranged with almost deliberate grace. One of them, Desmonema annasethe, he named for his beloved late wife, its flowing filaments a quiet memorial. Science and grief and design, fused on a single plate. The direct ancestor of the modern love of symmetry.
- Maker
- Ernst Haeckel (1834 to 1919)
- Date
- 1899–1904
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Kunstformen der Natur
- Credit
- Kunstformen der Natur · via Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00605
| Picture | 12 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 13.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 x 12 in | 275 | Excellent | Trimmed 4.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 191 | Good | Trimmed 7.1% |
| 12 x 18 in | 183 | Good | Trimmed 4.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 137 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 127 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 110 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 55 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,300 x 3,300 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 42, lights 255 of 255; 20.9% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.1% vivid
- Sharpness
- 166.47
- Notes
- Pure white on 21% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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