Cave Collection

Platos Cave Allegory
In Platos Republic Socrates likens mankind to prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows of reality, and the philosophers to those who have been given a glimpse of it

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France
Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France
Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave

Lascaux II cave painting replica C013 / 7378
Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are deer and auroch figures in the Great Hall of the Bulls. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France
Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork of horses painted on the wall of a cave

Pub Darts Match
A serious darts match held in the Merlins Cave, Clerkenwell, between the home team and the Lord High Admiral in the Barclay League

Bar built in cliff caves, Cova d en Xoroi in evening, Cala en Porter, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, Mediterranean, Europe

Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic
FL-3018 Lascaux cave painting Period: Paleolithic, c.18, 000 years ago Vezere Valley, Dordogne, France Ferrero Labat contact details: prints@ardea.com tel: +44 (0) 20 8318 1401

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France
Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork depicting various animals painted on the wall of a cave

Stone-age cave paintings, Chauvet, France
Stone-age cave paintings. Artwork of fighting rhinoceroses painted on the wall of a cave

Poster, Scotland, The Western Highlands and Islands, showing a visit to Fingal's Cave from RMS Columba, The Royal Route. Date: circa 1928

Lascaux II cave painting replica C013 / 7382
Lascaux II replica of a Lascaux cave painting. These are horse and cow figures in the central gallery. The original Lascaux cave was closed to the public in 1963

Lourdes grotto, Lourdes, Hautes Pyrenees, France, Europe

Merlins Cave K900465
TINTAGEL CASTLE, Cornwall. The sea entering Merlins Cave

Cave Hill and Belfast Castle - a side view of the Cave Hill with Belfast Castle underneath in the vegetation. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim: Belfast). Date: circa early 1900s

Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted
Prehistory. Paleolithic. France. Cabrerets. Pech Merle cave. The dotted horse. His head is drawn in the natural cut of the rock. On his back, a large red fish. Six black hands all around the horses

Lourdes - The statue in the Grotto
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, France in the Grotto at this sacred Christian site

Buddha statue in cliffs (since destroyed by the Taliban), Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. Artist: Leon-Maxime Faivre
Deux meres ( Two Mothers ), 1888. From the Musee d Orsay, Paris

The Great He-Goat, 1820-1823, by Francisco de Goya
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. The Great He-Goat, 1820-1823. Detail. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Rights Managed
Rock tunnel at Traigh Mhor, North Lewis, Isle of Lewis

The Ford at Cave River, Clarendon, Jamaica, West Indies. circa 1910

Cave of the Hands. ARGENTINA. SANTA CRUZ. Detail of the paintings. Neolithic art. Fresco

A climber ascending a cave archway at Foxhole, Gower Peninsula, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe

Sassi di Matera, Basilicata, Italy
Lonely Planet describes Matera as Italys most extraordinary town" due to its incredible old town, the Sassi (i sassi)

South Condurrow Mine, Camborne, Cornwall. 1892
Four miners standing in the Cathedral, at South Condurrow mine. In 1897 part of the property was transferred to Camborne School of Mines as the (later) King Edward VII mine

Ancient fresco, Sigiriya, UNESCO World Heritage Site, North Central Province, Sri Lanka, Asia

LASCAUX: RUNNING DEER. Running deer from the Cave of Lascaux, Montignac, France

Prehistoric cave art of a bull, Altamira, Spain
Prehistoric cave painting of a bull, Altamira, Spain. Color halftone reproduction

Beware of the dog mosaic
Pompeii, mosaic warning visitors Cave canem (beware of the dog) in Pompeii Date: before 79

Cueva de las Manos (Cave of Hands), UNESCO World Heritage Site, a cave or series of caves located in the province of Santa Cruz, 163 km south of the town of Perito Moreno, Patagonia, Argentina

SPAIN. Santillana de Mar. Altamira Caves. Bison. Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave

CAVE ART: PECH MERLE. Prehistoric human handprint from Pech Merle cave, France

Smugglers Unload Goods
A band of smugglers unload their cargo of contraband into a secluded coastal cave, constantly checking for any nearby customs men

Cave of Crystals, Naica Mine, Mexico
^BCave of Crystals.^b Geologist in the Cave of Crystals (^ICueva de los Cristales^i) in Naica Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico

Milky Way Over Hollow Rock
Hollow rock is an iconic coastal formation located on the North West side of Lake Superior. Air glow creates a colorful luminescent atmosphere below the night sky and Milky Way

Rock Abstract Art Western Australia
Part of a cave where there were aboriginal paintings in the northern areas of Western Australia. Together with the rock texture and colours it creates a beautiful abstract image

The sea caves of Benagil with natural windows on the clear waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Faro District, Algarve, Portugal, Europe

Picture No. 10766707
Australia - aboriginal rock painting of Kangaroos Date:

Neanderthal spear point
A spear point once belonging to that of Neanderthal Man (Homo neanderthalensis). This specimen was discovered in Gorhams Cave, Gibraltar

Venus of Laussel. 25 mil. -18 mil. BC. Venus holding a horn. Upper Paleolithic. Solutrean. Relief on rock. FRANCE. Bordeaux. Mus饠 d Aquitaine (Aquitaine Museum). Proc: FRANCE. LOT-ET-GARONNE

The portico in wrought iron on entrance door to Champagne Louis Roederer, Reims, Champagne, Marne, Ardennes, France

Sigiriya Damsels or Cloud Maidens, Sigiriya Lion Rock Fortress, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, Asia

Sigiriya Damsels or Cloud Maidens, Sigiriya Lion Rock Fortress, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sigiriya, Sri Lanka, Asia

Ancient frescoes, Sigiriya, UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Sigiriya Frescoes were painted on the western surface of Sigiriya Rock, located in Central Sri Lanka

CAVE ART: BISON. Bison from the Nave at Lascaux, Dordogne, France, 7 feet and 10.5 inches. Style III (c15, 000 B.C.)

CAVE ART. Standing bull bison from Cave of Altamira, Santander, Spain, c10, 000 B. C
CAVE ART. Standing bull bison from Cave of Altamira, Santander, Spain, c10, 000 B.C

NEANDERTHAL MAN. First reconstruction of a Neanderthal man, from the La Chapelle-aux-Saints Neanderthal skeleton, discovered in France in 1908

Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde National Park, Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloan ruins, Colorado. Digital photograph

Cave art paintings, prehistoric discovery
A cave painting of small brown and red stags with horses, composed in Greek style, between two large black bull heads

Tiny figures show scale of the Deer cave looking back to mouth of the Deer cave, Mulu National Park, Sarawak, island of Borneo, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia

Buddha statue in grotto, Tanzhe Temple, Beijing, China, Asia

Hypnos, God of Sleep
HYPNOS is the Greek god of sleep, known as SOMNUS to the Romans; he lives in a cave in the Cimmerian country where the sun never shines

The Odyssey / Scylla
Scylla, the six-headed monster who lived in a cave next to the deadly whirlpool Charybdis, attacks Odysseus men

King Canute (Cnut)
KING CNUT / CANUTE King of England (1016-35) and Denmark (1018-35)

Classical Greek gods allegorised
The classical Greek gods allegorised. Date: 18th century

SPAIN. Ribadesella. Tito Bustillo Cave. Shaggy rhinoceros. Upper Paleolithic. Magdalenian. Cave

CAVE ART: HORSE. Engraved head of a horse in the Rouffignac cave, Dordogne, France, c11, 000 B.C

Cave diving, Southern Thailand, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, Asia

Buddhist shrine, Pak Ou Buddha Caves, near Luang Prabang, Laos, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Flora / Charles Escape
Flora MacDonald aids the escape of the Young Pretender, Charles Edward Stuart, after the defeat at Culloden. Date: 1746

FRANCE. Montignac. The Cave of Lascaux. Horses and a bull, decoration of the great halls right wall. Upper Paleolithic

Harrisons Cave, Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America

Caesarea Philippi, an ancient Roman city now uninhabited and an archaeological site in the Golan Heights; Caesarea Philippi, Israel

No People Arizona Nature Antelope Canyon Rock - Object
Light beam in Antelope Canyon

Cave painting, artwork
Cave painting. Artwork of human figures painted on the wall of a cave, including scenes of cooking, drinking, fighting, and social interaction

Cave Cricket - Africa, underground caves and tunnels, spread to other places too
PM-10348 Cave Cricket - underground caves and tunnels Africa Phaeophilacris bredoides Pat Morris Please note that prints are for personal display purposes only and may not be reproduced in any way

Central America, Belize, Cayo, a guide escorts tourists into the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave near Belmopan

Sunrays in Cenote Jardin del Eden, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, May 2016. Photographed for The Freshwater Project

Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. Arago
Tautavel Man. Subspecies of the hominid Homo erectus. 450.000 years old fossil. Discovered in the Arago Cave in Tautavel, France

Interior of The Treasury, Petra, Jordan
The site is open from 6am to 6pm during the summer and from 6am to 4 pm in winter

Holy Island AL0201_031_01
Holy Island, Northumberland, View looking out from caves on the coast. Photographed by George Washington Wilson 1890-1910

Phallic dance. Mesolithic art. Cave. Proc: SPAIN. El Cogul. Cova dels Moros

Nebraska Man by Amedee Forestier
An artists vision of Hesperophiticus (The Ape-Man of the Western World) belonging to the Pliocene epoch

Man in Cathedral Cave, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland

Tre Cime di Lavaredo / Drei Zinnen, three distinctive mountain peaks in the Sexten Dolomites seen from WW1 cave shelter, South Tyrol, Italy, October 2019

Wildkirchli (Wild Chapel), Ebenalp, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Switzerland. Tourist admiring the view (MR)

The Diving Belles music hall divers and aquatic acrobats
The Diving Belles led by Daphne ?appearing in an elaborate sea cave scena Mermaids in Shells with clever and original tricks and fancy diving?

European cave lion, Panthera leo spenaea, extinct subspecies of lion

Argentina, Rio Pinturas, Cueva de los Manos, imprints of human hands on rock

Sculpture of the Buddha in the main room of the temple of Vishvakarma (Cave 10), Ellora Caves, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Maharashtra, India, Asia

Frescoes depicting bared chested women talking
Colorful frescoes depicting two bared chested women talking between them covering the western face of the rock in the historical and archaeological site of Sigiriya, Matale District

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Exploring the depths of human perception, the cave becomes a metaphorical gateway to enlightenment. Just like Plato's Cave Allegory, where prisoners mistake shadows for reality, we too often find ourselves trapped in our own limited perspectives. The replica of Lascaux II cave painting C013/7378 takes us back thousands of years, reminding us of the ancient wisdom and artistic expressions that have been preserved within these mysterious caverns. Stone-age cave paintings found in Chauvet, France further unveil humanity's innate desire to leave its mark on history. Hidden within cliff caves lies an unexpected treasure - Cova d'en Xoroi in Cala en Porter, Menorca. As evening falls and a pub darts match commences inside this unique bar built into nature's embrace, one can't help but marvel at the ingenuity and adaptability of humankind. Venturing deeper into history, South Condurrow Mine in Camborne transports us to Cornwall during 1892 when miners risked their lives daily to extract precious minerals from beneath the earth's surface. The resilience and determination displayed by these workers are awe-inspiring. Merlin's Cave stands as a testament to mythical tales and legends passed down through generations. This mystical refuge sparks imagination and invites contemplation about what lies beyond our tangible reality. In Lourdes' Grotto resides a statue that has become synonymous with hope and healing for millions around the world. It serves as a reminder that even within darkness or despair, there is always room for faith and miracles. Tragically destroyed by the Taliban, Buddha statue carved into cliffs in Bamiyan once stood tall as an emblem of peace and serenity amidst Afghanistan's rugged landscape. Its absence now echoes louder than ever before - a stark reminder of how cultural heritage can be lost forever if not protected.