Paintings Gallery

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France

Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave. These paintings are found in the Chauvet Cave, France, the site of the earliest known cave paintings (as of 2011), which have been dated to between 32, 900 and 30, 000 years ago

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The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, WW1

The Great Sacrifice by James Clark, originally published in the 1914 Christmas number of The Graphic. Depicting a dead soldier on a battlefield with an ethereal image of Christ on the cross shining down on him, it was one of the most popular images of the war. Stephen Paget observed in The Cornhill Magazine that this Graphic cover has turned railway bookstalls into wayside shrines; the one and only picture of the war, up to now, which says what most needs to be said on canvas. Date: 1914

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Evstafieff - A R Wallace J970179

DOWN HOUSE, Kent. "A R Wallace" by Victor Evstafieff ( Eustaphieff, Evstafiev ). Alfred Russel Wallace was a proponent of natural selection whose paper on the subject (1858) prompted Darwin to publish "On the Origin of Species" (1859). Wallace was a keen supporter of Darwin's theory and later published "Darwinism" (1889)

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