Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Haeckel Spumellaria

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[edit] Haeckel Spumellaria

A plate illustrating the Spumellaria subclass of Radiolarians, from Ernst Haeckel's 1899 Kunstformen der Natur.
A plate illustrating the Spumellaria subclass of Radiolarians, from Ernst Haeckel's 1899 Kunstformen der Natur.

Although lacking the color of the Sea Anemone lithograph, I find this similarly captivating. It's currently in Polycystine, and I'm going to work on scanning all the plates of radiolarians from Kunstformen der Natur to create a gallery in Radiolarian as well, so it will be there too. As that article puts it, "German biologist Ernst Haeckel produced exquisite (and perhaps somewhat exaggerated) drawings of radiolaria, helping to popularize these protists among Victorian parlor microscopists", and this is one of the best.

Note: said gallery in radiolarian is now installed.--ragesoss 18:25, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Nominate and support. - ragesoss 03:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support I don't really have a comment, other than that I'm a sucker for these images and the quality of the scan is good. –Joke 03:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support. The drawings Haeckel produced are amazing. - Samsara contrib talk 04:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment There's a lot of dust... anybody want to clean it up? ~MDD4696 04:44, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
It's not actually dust, it's abrasions to page. But, yes, some better cleanup would be nice.--ragesoss 04:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support - Mgm|(talk) 09:00, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Oppose this one. I like microphotographs better - and as many of the 19th century lithographs, this is, as you say, exaggerated. (I have a whole 20-or-so volume set of the German "Brockhausen" encyclopedia from the late 1890s, and the lithos in it are a pleasure for the eye, but alas, not as "truthful" as today's standard require...) --Janke | Talk 14:25, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support - looks like x-mas tree decorations :) I don't think truthfullness is the criteria here. It's more eye pleasure and histrical value. Renata 23:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support - History and sheer beauty of Nature make this picture a great candidate Swilk 04:48, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support per Swilk. enochlau (talk) 15:38, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support-- Chris 73 | Talk 17:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Flcelloguy (A note?) 15:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
  • ( + ) Support --Fir0002 00:43, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support Calderwood 07:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Support per above, nice. JtkieferT | C | @ ---- 09:20, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Haeckel Spumellaria.jpg Raven4x4x 10:05, 24 February 2006 (UTC)