Ocean Life Painting - Framed Art Print framed with light at its summit

with light at its summit and shadow at its base

This dramatic image is of the great Indian fruit bat (Pteropus giganteus) frontally displayed with one wing out-stretched

Civilization has laid no mark on pure nature

but it traveled instead to New York's Academy of Design and Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute

• 21×30cm posters are size A4

Ocean Life Painting - Framed Art Print framed with light at its summitAbout The Art: Schussele, the first professor in drawing and painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was chiefly a genre, history painter and portrait painter, yet his subject matter occasionally reflected Philadelphias scientific tradition, as in this watercolor. One of the earliest American submarine illustrations, this picture was executed expressly for lithographic reproduction in a pamphlet of the same title published in