Images of women
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Female figure pendant
El Pendo, Cantabria, Spain
Antler
Height: 6.44 cms
Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueología de Cantabria, Santander
1740
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Nu mi-allongé, bras replies vers les yeux
Lithograph on smooth Japan paper
43.5 x 245 cms
The British Museum
1949.0411.3348
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Le Grand Nu, 1950
Print
53.3 x 41.7 cms
The British Museum
2004.0602.113
Female figure engraved as a lozenge pattern
Montastruc, Bruniquel, France
Antler
Length: 12.8 cms
The British Museum
Palart.566
Baton fragment with engraved female figure
La Madeleine, Dordogne, France
Antler
Length: 19.5 cms
The British Museum
Palart.318
Female figure engraved on a stone block
Gare de Couze, Dordogne, France
Limestone
Length: 42 cms
Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies
MNP 92.4.1
Female figure engraved on base of broken lamp
Courbet Cave, Penne-Tarn, France
Limestone
Length: 23 cms
The British Museum
Palart.518
Female figures beads
Courbet Cave, Penne-Tarn, France
Mammoth Ivory
Height: 2.5 cms
The British Museum
Palart.519 & 520
Sculpted female figures
Nebra, Thüringens, Germany
Mammoth ivory
Height: 6.5 cm
Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
Sachsen-Anhalt.
Landesmuseum fü Vorgeschichte, Halle
v3
Sculpted female figures
Nebra, Thüringens, Germany
Mammoth ivory
Height: 5.2 cm
Sculpted female figures
Ölknitz, Thringens, Germany
Bone
Height: 6.3 cm
Sculpted female
Ölknitz, Thringens, Germany
Mammoth ivory
Height: 4.8 cms
Museum für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar
847/69
Sculpted female
Ölknitz, Thüringens, Germany
Mammoth ivory
Height: 3.5 cms
Museum für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar
848/69
Figure of a woman insinuated in stone
Ölknitz, Thüringens, Germany
Pizarra
Height: 5 cms
Museum für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar
2191/97
Figure of a woman insinuated in stone
Ölknitz, Thüringen, Germany
Stone
Height: 10.8 cms
Museum für Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringens, Weimar
844/69
Female figure on a pebble
Courbet Cave, Penne-Tarn, France
Stone
Height: 6.1 cms
The British Museum
Palart.517
Female figure on a pebble
Courbet Cave, Penne-Tarn, France
Stone
Height: 9 cms
The British Museum
Palart.516
Female figure made from a fragment of stalactite
Montastruc, Bruniquel, France
Calcite
Height: 3 cms
The British Museum
Palart.710
Engraved drawing of a male figure
Pin Hole Cave, Creswell Crags, Derbyshire
Bone
Length: 20.8 cms
The British Museum
Palart.854