Sea Slugs — Nudibranchia
Ernst Haeckel (1834 to 1919), 1899–1904
$150
Print check at 12 x 18 in: 179 dpi, good. Trimmed 5.3% 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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Nudibranchs — sea slugs — are among the most extravagantly decorated animals alive, their soft bodies fringed with plumes and horns and lit in colours that seem to belong to no living thing. Haeckel gives them a dark plate so the oranges, violets and electric blues blaze, arranging the specimens around the page with his usual designer’s eye for balance. There is no shell, no armour; the colour itself is the display, a warning and an ornament at once. It is one of the most purely delightful pages in Art Forms in Nature, and a reminder that Haeckel’s claim — that evolution is also an artist — is nowhere easier to believe than on the floor of the sea.
- 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-00667
| 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 100, lights 255 of 255; 40.5% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0.2% vivid
- Sharpness
- 56.46
- Notes
- Pure white on 41% of the image, mostly the sheet itself: it prints as the paper's white
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