The menhir of Saint-Uzec, in Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany. Colour lithograph after A. de Mortillet.

  • Mortillet, Adrien de, 1853-1931.
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1897
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31411i
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The menhir of Saint-Uzec, in Pleumeur-Bodou, Brittany. Colour lithograph after A. de Mortillet. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A Neolithic menhir carved and painted in the 17th century with Christian motifs (the Crucifixion and and the Instruments of the Passion or Arma Christi). The polychrome painting shown here has since disappeared

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1897

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1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; image 16.8 x 10 cm

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Menhir de Pleumeur-Bodou (Cotes-du-nord). D'apres A. de Mortillet. Rev. Ecole Anthr. - 1897. Bears number on the top right : Pl.1

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Wellcome Collection 31411i

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