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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Pencil botanical drawing of a branching plant with clustered bristly flower heads and small floral dissections below.

Darwinia fascicularis Rudge subsp. fascicularis

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved portrait of a tattooed chief with a feathered headdress, shell earrings, woven cloak and neck ornament.

The chief at Santa Christina

John Hall, 1777

Watercolour landscape of a river bank with a small boat, a stone monument, reeds, a leaning tree and blue hills.

Stream with ruins

Botanical illustration of a trailing stem with serrated leaves, small white flowers and buds on a cream sheet.

Goodenia rotundifolia R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolour drawing of a banded weedfish in side view with fin counts and a Tasmanian locality label.

Possibly Heteroclinus sp (Tas) : Weedfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Sepia drawing of a figure with a staff by a river under trees and clouds, with a pale sky.

Landscape

Henry Jury, 1873

Monochrome botanical drawing of a Hakea branch with narrow leaves and woody seed capsules, labelled at lower left.

Hakea dactyloides (Gaertner) Cavanilles

Sydney Parkinson

Sepia lithograph of Penshurst Place, Kent, showing a Gothic gatehouse with costumed figures, a horseback rider and dogs in th

Penshurst, Kent

Joseph Nash, 1839

Black and white print of two jockeys on horses turning on a racetrack beside a white railing, with more horses behind.

Horses turning into a canter

John Singleton Copley, 1937

Engraved botanical print of a leafy branch with elongated leaves and small flower clusters, labelled Celtis glabrata.

Celtis paniculata (Endlicher) Planchon

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil sketch of a cottage, church spire and cart under loose cloud strokes, with handwritten notes above.

Sketch of cottage and cart from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour of a sunlit, striated cliff rising above a grey sea, with hills in the distance under a pale sky.

Curious cliff near Cape Farewell

William Marshall Cooper

Botanical print of a twining Muehlenbeckia complexa branch with small rounded leaves and flowers, plus a detached flower inse

Muehlenbeckia complexa (Cunningham) Meisner

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Colourful linocut of a curving city street with a red bus marked SPEED, pedestrians and tall patterned buildings.

Speed

Claude Flight, 1922

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue and white kimono on a veranda, with a cat in a red collar and blossoming tree.

Yuagari, Kansei koro fujin. (After the bath: Woman of the Kansei era). From the series Thirty-six elegant selections

Mizuno Toshikata, 1893

Monochrome botanical drawing of a Hakea branch with needle-like leaves and a small seed pod detail at lower right.

Hakea teretifolia (Salisbury) Britten

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a stylized nude woman before a hatched mirror, with her figure built from overlapping curved geometric outlines.

Young woman before a mirror

John Buckland-Wright, 1936

Pencil sketch of a small hut among tall reeds beside a flat shoreline, on a grey sketchbook page numbered 38.

Landscape sketch. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Botanical drawing of a Senecio plant with three slender stems, daisy-like flower heads and lobed rosette leaves on cream pape

Senecio trifurcatus (G. Forster) Lessing

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of Lake Wakatipu with calm blue water, hazy mountains, and boulders with reddish shrubs in the foreground.

Lake Wakatipu

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hand painted plate of numbered beetles and their larvae, each with a scale bar, labelled Plate VIII.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate VIII]

George Hudson, 1934

Monochrome botanical illustration of a small flowering plant with branching stems, clustered blossoms, and roots, with flower

Poranthera microphylla Brongniart in Duperrey

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of a stone arch bridge over a river, with cows on rocks, cottages, trees, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Bolton Bridge

Percy Lancaster

Charcoal sketch of a standing man in a long coat beside animals in a rocky landscape with distant trees.

Sketch of man and animals in landscape in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil botanical drawing of a leafy branch with clustered flower buds and a small detail sketch of a flower.

Rudgea eriantha Bentham

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of a river winding through a golden valley beneath blue-shaded mountains under a pale sky.

Mataura Gorge, Southland

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a sandy shore with a town, church spire, distant mountain, and a sailboat on calm water.

Isle of Wight from Portsmouth

Anthony Copley Fielding, 1832

Botanical drawing of a climbing vine with heart-shaped leaves, small clustered flowers and buds on a cream sheet.

Marsdenia mollissima Fournier

Sydney Parkinson

Two studies of a young girl, standing with tam'o'shanter

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolor of tall trees framing a calm lake with a small sailboat and distant hazy mountains.

Through the trees