Nudibranchia
Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch), 1899–1904
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 179 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.3% to the shape of the print.
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Nudibranchs — shell-less sea slugs that advertise their toxicity (often borrowed from the stinging cells of the anemones and corals they eat) with some of the most saturated coloration in the animal kingdom — gave Haeckel a subject that barely needed his usual compositional embellishment. This plate arranges seven species across the page like specimens pinned for display, their frilled cerata and rhinophores rendered in the coral pinks, acid yellows, and deep violets that make nudibranchs a favorite of macro photographers to this day, more than a century after this plate was drawn. What to notice: Haeckel's argument that beauty in nature followed evolutionary law finds its most literal proof here — the slugs' colors aren't decorative in the way a flower's are, they're a hard-won survival adaptation that happens to also be strikingly beautiful.
- Maker
- Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch)
- Date
- 1899–1904
- Medium of the original
- Lithograph
- Original held by
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00275
| 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 | 269 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 189 | Good | Trimmed 6.1% |
| 12 x 18 in | 179 | Good | Trimmed 5.3% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 11 x 14 in | Wrong shape: a 10% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 16 x 24 in | 134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 18 x 24 in | 126 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 20 x 30 in | 107 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 12% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 89 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 75 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 53 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,277 x 3,234 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 102, lights 255 of 255; 41.4% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.3% vivid
- Sharpness
- 15.09
- Notes
- Pure white on 41% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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