Ernst Haekel, the famed German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, whose book "Art Forms in Nature" filled with lovely 19th century scientific illustrations of biology has inspired many of my prints. This month the mad scientists of etsy challenge theme is Ernst Haeckel, so here we have the man himself, surrounded by several of the creatures he depicted. Clockwise from the top we have: rugosa, a foraminifer (or foram), a tubularid hydroid, homo sapiens (Ernst Haeckel), a dinoflagelate, and a sea slug or nudibranch.

This is an original lino block print printed in various colours, water-based block printing ink on Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper. The first edition is limited to four prints The sheets are 30.5 cm by 30.5 cm (12 inches by 12 inches).

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Je suis inspirée par la beauté des dessins de la biologiste allemande du 19ième siècle, Ernst Haeckel. Cette linogravure montre le scientifique avec plusiers animaux (un cnidaire, un foraminifère, rugosa (aussi appelé tetracoralla), un nudibranche, et un Dinophyte (Dinophyta), encore appelées Dinoflagellé (Dinoflagellata)).

C'est un linogravure sur papier japonais « kozo » (12 pouces par 12 pouces ou 30,5 cm par 30,5 cm). Il y a 4 gravures dans l'édition limité.

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