Haeckel Art Forms in Nature Vintage Illustration Pack 4, 16 Printable Plates

A themed pack of 16 printable vintage plates from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature, 1899–1904), his famous book of jellyfish, sea creatures, moths, mosses and other natural forms, made for junk journals, scrapbooking, card making, collage, decoupage and paper crafts. Print them at home, cut them out and layer them into your projects. The files are full-size original scans, so they are also big enough to frame as wall art.

Plates included: Phaeodaria Radiolarians (Plate 1), Ciliata Ciliates (Plate 3), Diatomea Diatoms (Plate 4), Ophiodea Brittle Stars (Plate 10), Discoidea Radiolarians (Plate 11), Thalamophora Foraminifera (Plate 12), Flagellata Flagellates (Plate 13), Narcomedusae Jellyfish (Plate 16), Desmidiea Desmids (Plate 24), Sertulariae Hydroids (Plate 25), Melethallia Algae (Plate 34), Campanariae Bell Hydroids (Plate 45), Stauromedusae Stalked Jellyfish (Plate 48), Siphoneae Green Algae (Plate 64), Arachnida Spiders (Plate 66), Platodes Flatworms (Plate 75).

Print size: Full-size original museum and library scans, never resized: about 7,300–7,600 px on the long edge. Every plate prints sharp up to about 15 × 24 in at 300 dpi (based on the smallest plate; most go larger), and down to A4, US Letter or A5 with no loss. The shapes vary slightly because they're original book pages.

Files: 16 high-resolution JPGs, about 7,300–7,600 px on the long edge (214 MB total), delivered as one zip download.

Source: Colour lithographs from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (drawn on stone by lithographer Adolf Giltsch), from the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division master TIFF scans, via Wikimedia Commons. Each plate is trimmed only to the printed page area at full native resolution. Public domain, no known restrictions: Haeckel died in 1919 and Giltsch in 1911, and the plates were published 1899–1904.

Digital file only. No physical item will be shipped.