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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolour of two cows drinking from a woodland pool beneath dense trees, with golden light on the water.

The pool

Jessie Hall, 1910

Watercolor landscape of a church and town below a hill, with a shepherd and sheep on a road and a carriage in the foreground.

Ludlow Church

Watercolor of a golden plain with two riders and a pack horse on a winding track, with blue mountains on the horizon.

The Pyramids from the Waimea Plains

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black and white print of a wooden church with tall steeple and cross, with an overturned boat on grassy dunes in front.

Drawing of church

Sanford Ross, 1931

Lithograph portrait of a man with curly hair and whiskers in a frock coat and plaid waistcoat, in an octagonal vignette.

Portrait of William Jardine

Thomas Maguire, 1849

Woodblock print of a horseman in patterned robes crossing Nihonbashi bridge above river boats and Edo rooftops.

Nihonbashi: from the series Views of famous places of Edo

Shigenobu Hiroshige II, 1862

Pencil sketch of a wooden house with a chimney, trees, and a sloping hillside on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of house in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Black and white botanical engraving of a Gaultheria antipoda branch with leaves, buds and flowers on cream paper.

Gaultheria antipoda G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etched view of a narrow city street with tall tenements, a horse and cart, and a shop sign reading Drysalter.

The Saut buckets, Edinburgh

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1926

Brown charcoal sketch with white chalk highlights obscuring faint outlines of two standing figures in a sketchbook page.

Obscured sketch of two standing figures fom An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved oval portrait of a man in a uniform coat and lace cravat, with a French caption below.

Le Capitaine Jacques Cook

Jacques Bénard, 1778

Watercolour of a river winding past a red-railed bridge toward hazy mountains under a pale sky.

Glen Allen Bridge, Waiau River

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pencil sketch of tree trunks and branches on the right with a faint hillside across a pale sketchbook page.

Tree study. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Etching of a Venetian canal under an arched bridge with gondolas, rowers, and tall palazzi lining the water.

Canal and bridge of SS. Apostoli, Venice

Muirhead Bone, 1929

Pencil and wash drawing of a hazy valley with mountains, a winding river, trees and farm buildings on the right.

Manapouri (Manipori) Station

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Sepia panoramic print of a 19th-century harbour town with many sailing ships, timber buildings and a dirt street.

View of part of Dunedin, 1862

F W Johns, 1862

Sepia print of a busy station hall under a glass arched roof, with crowds of people, women, children and uniformed men.

Dans le hall

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1916

Ink and wash sketch of a standing man in a suit beside books, with handwritten notes on the page.

Sketch portrait of Henry Arthur Hunt

Francis Grant, 1860

Watercolour of a bearded man seated in a cluttered second-hand shop filled with books, ceramics, framed pictures and antiques

A second-hand shop, Paris

Owen Merton, 1910

Watercolor of farm buildings with a thatched barn, cottage with chimney, and large trees under a pale sky.

Farm buildings

Drawing of a sleeping man beneath angels ascending a ladder into clouds, framed by windswept trees and rocky hills.

Jacob's Ladder

Sepia print of Perseus seated with winged helmet and sandals, facing three draped sea nymphs standing beside a pool.

Perseus and the Sea Nymphs. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1877

Monochrome print of a river with a small boat, framed by trees and rocks, with mountains and clouds beyond.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate V. Wai-au River

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Print of a perch biting a red fishing lure above calm river water, with driftwood, rocks and reeds along the bank.

Untitled - Samuel Kilbourne, 1878

Samuel Kilbourne, 1878

Monochrome botanical drawing of a branching plant with feathery leaves and clustered seed heads on slender stems.

Daucus glochidiatus (Labillardiere) Fischer & C. Meyer in Fischer, C. Meyer & Ave-Lallemont

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of the Gothic Hotel de Ville in Bruges with spires and arched windows, framed by trees and people in the square.

Hotel de Ville, Bruges

Andrew Affleck, 1905

Pencil sketch of misty mountains and rolling hills with tussock and flax in the foreground, with handwritten colour notes.

Untitled (Mavora Lake area)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraved print of the Madonna holding the infant Christ with young Saint John the Baptist beside them.

Madonna col Bambino

Girolamo Nardini

Pencil sketch of a reclining man partly wrapped in a blanket, with an arm raised and loose hatching on the drapery.

Studies of a man wrapped in a blanket: 1. Standing. 2. Reclining

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Charcoal portrait of an elderly bearded man in a wrapped turban, looking toward the viewer on tan paper.

Head of an old man