chelonia turtles fine art print ernst haeckel drawing Leo Gestel (11 November 1881

Leo Gestel (11 November 1881

Cross strictly carried out the pointillism method of placing color dots next to each other at the beginning

sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30

a politician who served two terms as Mayor of Limoges

It pairs intriguingly with Haeckel's fern and moss plates for a lush

chelonia turtles fine art print ernst haeckel drawing Leo Gestel (11 November 1881Ancient, patient and beautifully patterned, sea turtles glide across this Haeckel plate with their shells rendered in intricate mosaics of brown, amber and green. Ernst Haeckel composed the sheet so that each turtle shows off the geometry of its carapace, the scutes fitting together like inlaid tile a reminder of why these animals have fascinated naturalists for centuries. The print is drawn from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), the 100