artforms in nature

Plate 21 from <n>Maria Sibylla Merian</n>'s <n>Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium</n> (1705), engraved by <n>Joseph Mulder</n>.

<n>A Poppy in Three Stages of Flowering, with a Caterpillar, Pupa and Butterfly</n> by <n>Johanna Helena Herolt</n>, c. 1695–98.

A 1903 woodblock print from <n>Hamonshu</n>, a book of wave and ripple designs by Japanese artist <n>Mori Yuzan</n>.

Illustrations from <n>Hamonshu</n>, a Japanese design book of wave patterns by artist <n>Mori Yūzan</n> (1903).

Anemone pulsatilla, a botanical illustration by <n>Pierre Bulliard</n> from 1798.

Illustration of <n>Echinops sphaerocephalus</n> by <n>Frederick Polydore Nodder</n> for <n>The Naturalist's Miscellany</n>, 1790.

<n>Plate 75, Volume 3</n> from <n>A. G. Mayer</n>'s <n>Medusae of the World</n> (1910).

Illustration of the mineral <n>Wavellite</n> from <n>James Sowerby</n>'s <n>British Mineralogy</n> (1805).

Plate 50 from <n>Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium</n> (1705) by <n>Maria Sibylla Merian</n>.

Illustration of an <n>Aegoceras armatum</n> fossil by <n>Thomas Wright</n>, 1878.

<n>Frösche in Bauch-und Rückenlage</n>, an 1896 X-ray by <n>Josef Maria Eder</n> and <n>Eduard Valenta</n>.

<n>'Calx carbonata' [Ammonite with crystals]</n>, an 1803 illustration by <n>James Sowerby</n>.

A wax drawing by artist <n>Valerie Hammond</n>, created by layering ferns over a print of a hand.

Page from <n>Mira calligraphiae monumenta</n> with calligraphy by <n>Georg Bocskay</n> and illuminations by <n>Joris Hoefnagel</n>.

A Chestnut tree and a self-castrating beaver, a medieval myth, from the <n>Tractatus de Herbis</n> (ca. 1440).

<n>Nautilus Shell</n> (c. 1828-40), an ink and watercolor on cotton by <n>Orra White Hitchcock</n>.