Filicinae - Fern Size:70×100 cm which is why later dates

which is why later dates are often attached to the image

Creator: Ohara Koson

Ohara Koson (Japanese 小原 古邨

Place of origin: Switzerland

but it is just as at home in a botanical-themed bathroom

Filicinae - Fern Size:70×100 cm which is why later datesThere is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern, and this Haeckel plate celebrates it in lush, layered greens. Fronds arc and curl across the sheet, the tightly coiled fiddleheads set against fully opened leaves so that the whole life of the plant seems to play out in a single image. Ernst Haeckel arranged it with the symmetry and density that make his botanical studies so satisfying to look at. The print is part of