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Cave paintings

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Mural painting and decoration
Mural painting and decoration
Rock paintings
Mural painting and decoration
Rock paintings

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Images from the collections

Images about Cave paintings

18 images from works
  • M0015072: Neolithic representation of a hunter and stag, Spain
  • M0015070: Mesolithic representation of a herd of stags
  • M0015193: Illustration of a prehistoric rock painting representing a rain ceremony
  • M0015294: Illustration of a group of horses and one bison, Upper Palaeolithic.
  • M0015073: Neolithic representation of hind, young fawn and stag, Spain
  • M0014993: Illustration of a rock engraving of a man and ostriches
  • M0015097: Prehistoric burial scene represented in a rock-painting, Zimbabwe
  • M0015755: Drawing of nine partially clothed women and one young man
  • M0015071: Neolithic representation of solar symbols, Spain
  • M0015075: Neolithic rock carving representing two elks, Norway

Works from the collections

146 works

    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0004840: Drawing of a brown bison, from Font-de-Gaume

    | Date: 6 October 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/39/32
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0004793: Red symbols from the Cave of Altamina

    | Date: 29 September 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0004847: Drawing of two large reindeer, from Font-de-Gaume

    | Date: 6 October 1936 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/39/39
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0011689: Upper palaeolithic wall painting showing wolf

    | Date: December 1950 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/103/99
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0015293: Rhinoceros carved on a rock wall, upper Palaeolithic

    | Date: October 1956 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/136/59
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Related topics

Art, Prehistoric
Prehistoric
Ancient
Prehistoric peoples

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