M0004683: Silhouettes of hands on walls of a cave

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Drawings of hands.

A reproduction of a photograph of print illustrations of silhouettes of hands in red and black as they were found on the walls of a cave in Gargas, Spain, from the late Paleolithic era.

7 July 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Wellcome holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.