peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel island a color-plate book titled The

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peromedusae jellyfish fine art print ernst haeckel island a color-plate book titled TheThe coronate jellyfish of this plate come from the deeper, darker reaches of the ocean, and Haeckel drew them with a fittingly dramatic touch. Their crowned, grooved bells sit above short, sturdy tentacles, arranged in warm browns, reds and ambers against a shadowy background so that they seem to hang suspended in the deep. There is a richness and weight to these medusae that sets them apart from his paler jellyfish studies. The illustration is part