The Ancestral Sea

The <n>Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis)</n>, a marine hydrozoan.

A <n>starfish</n> photographed by <n>Jacques Brun</n>.

Sand grains magnified up to 300 times, photographed by <n>Gary Greenberg</n>.

Album art for <n>Valley Of The Whales</n> by <n>AshTreJinkins</n>, released in 2013. Artwork by <n>Poozy</n>.

Detail from <n>Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Madame Claude Lambert de Thorigny</n> (1696) by <n>Nicolas de Largillière</n>.

A teaser for <n>Porter Jewellery</n>'s <n>'To Wear' Collection</n> launch on August 15, 2024.

<n>Snorkelling in Malta</n>, a 1959 photograph by <n>Slim Aarons</n>.

A sea slug on the Great Barrier Reef, photographed by <n>Valerie Taylor</n> for <n>National Geographic</n> in 1973.

From <n>Heathcote Williams</n>'s 1988 book, <n>Whale Nation</n>.

A cyanotype of an argonaut shell by <n>Anna Atkins</n>, 1843.

From the <n>Áurea</n> collection by <n>Tissimum</n> for Spring/Summer 2025.

A photograph from <n>Duilio Marcante</n>'s <n>This is diving</n>, 1977.

<n>Young Imperial Angelfish</n> from '<n>Living fishes of the world</n>' (1961). Photo by <n>Gene Wolfsheimer</n>.

Marine biologist <n>Sylvia Earle</n> holds a <n>Spotted Porcupine Fish</n>. Photo from the <n>NOAA Photo Library</n>.

A close-up of a <n>Green Ritteri Anemone</n>.

A larval <n>Wunderpus octopus</n> photographed by <n>Wu Yung-sen</n> in Anilao, Philippines.

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<n>Actiniae</n>, a 1904 lithograph by <n>Ernst Haeckel</n> from his book <n>Kunstformen der Natur</n>.

A <n>school of fish</n> parts for <n>sharks</n> in the Maldives.

<n>Nitophyllum Bonnemaisoni</n>, a cyanotype print from c. 1843 by English botanist <n>Anna Atkins</n>.

<n>Carte der Europaeischen Tuerkey</n>, an 1828 map by <n>F. Fried</n>, published by <n>Artaria & Comp.</n>

Campaign for <n>Hermès</n> <n>Terre d'Hermès</n> directed by <n>Bisous</n>.

A diver swims among jellyfish in <n>Jellyfish Lake</n>, Palau. Photo by <n>David Doubilet</n> for <n>National Geographic</n>.