Sea Anemones
Ernst Haeckel (1834 to 1919), 1899–1904
$270
Print check at 18 x 24 in: 182 dpi, good. Trimmed 5% 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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Of the hundred plates in Art Forms in Nature, this is the one that startles people: sea anemones massed together in magenta, coral, viridian and gold, their tentacles fanned out in perfect radial rosettes like a tray of impossible flowers. Haeckel drew from specimens and from life on his Mediterranean trips, then arranged the page for maximum symmetry — biology composed with the eye of a designer. He believed nature’s underlying order was itself beautiful, and that showing it was an argument. Architects and jewellers of the 1900s pored over these pages; you can trace Art Nouveau’s whole vocabulary back to them.
- 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-00631
| Picture | 18 x 24 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 19.6 x 25.6 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 | 384 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 11 x 14 in | 299 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.3% |
| 12 x 16 in | 274 | Excellent | Trimmed 5% |
| 12 x 18 in | 256 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 16 x 24 in | 192 | Good | Trimmed 6.5% |
| 18 x 24 in | 182 | Good | Trimmed 5% |
| 20 x 30 in | 153 | Good | Trimmed 6.5% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 8 x 10 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 16 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 24 x 36 in | 128 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 30 x 40 in | 109 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 36 x 48 in | 91 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 40 x 60 in | 76 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 3,289 x 4,615 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 70, lights 208 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 82.87
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
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