Anemones, corals, shells and fish crowd a teeming seabed

James M. Somerville was a 19th-century British naturalist illustrator whose meticulous engravings of marine life contributed to the great tradition of natural history illustration that flourished in the Victorian era — works that are simultaneously scientific records and objects of considerable visual beauty.

Printed on Hahnemühle German Etching paper — the same archival stock museum studios use — through a 12-ink giclée process that holds colour the way memory holds detail: precisely, completely. Collector-grade, by design.