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Nautilus are strange, prehistoric creatures. The earliest nautilus fossils date back hundreds of millions of years ago, to the Triassic Period, and closely resemble today’s nautilus species.
They are living fossils, a link to a lost world. Their spiral shells are made up of many internal chambers, the largest of which contains the living body of the nautilus. As the nautilus ages, it forms a new chamber to house its growing body, leaving behind a successively smaller series of chambers. In doing so, each nautilus holds in its shell a record of its past selves, a home perpetually outgrown, but never abandoned.
Specifications
A7 5x7 IN.
CREAM CARD STOCK + BLACK ENVELOPE
FULL COLOR PRINTING
SET OF SIX
MADE IN THE USA
Notes About the Artwork
Source Print
Marina 1 + 2
Artist: Georg Wolfgang Knorr
From: Deliciae naturae selectae, oder, Auserlesenes Natüralien-Cabinet welches aus den drey Reichen der Natur zeiget pt. 1
History
This beautiful set of Nautilus shells, is part of Knorr's masterful book, which featured a collection of specimens taken from cabinets of curiosities in Nuremberg.
