Copepoda - Ernst Haeckel, 1904. (Sea Life Wall Art)
This print is all detail, but it still feels clean on the wall. The tiny sea creatures are arranged like a careful display, with strong reds and warm neutrals that look great in a study, office, or reading corner. It is a sea life art print that pulls you in slowly, so it works especially well as wall art in calm, bookish home decor.
About this sea life print
This print comes from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), published in a series between 1899 and 1904. Haeckel was a zoologist, but he had a designer’s eye, so even the scientific pages feel balanced. Instead of a busy scene, everything is placed so you can compare shapes and patterns without effort.
Copepods are tiny crustaceans found in marine and freshwater habitats, and they are a big part of how ocean food webs work. This is what makes the page feel so satisfying: it takes something most people never notice and makes it visible, almost like a small museum drawer turned into art prints. If you move from this microscopic world into a more flowing, open composition, Narcomedusae (Ernst Haeckel, 1904.) shows how the same book shifts from tiny structure to drifting jellyfish forms, while keeping that same calm, organized look.
Craft & finish
This sea life print is made on hand-processed paper, highlighted with subtle gold and sealed with beeswax for an authentic parchment feel. Please note that colors can look slightly different from screen to screen.
Find more prints like this in our Sea Life Art collection.
Copepoda (Ernst Haeckel, 1904.) - Vintage Animal Print
In case your print creases during the travel, as it usually does travel for some time, you can safely warm it up with a hair-dryer, and the wax will melt back right into it. You can also use a lighter, which is a much faster method, but be careful to keep the flame either above the paper or parallel to it (which means holding the paper vertically) so it doesn't smudge or even catch fire. The chance of the print actually creasing is very small, as they are rolled in bubble-wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. Also, be sure to keep the print out of the direct sunlight, as it can melt or fade.
Visit the link below to see more about how our replicas are made, how to display them, and repair the damage:
https://www.artifex-replicas.com/post/about-our-parchment-replicas
