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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Sepia lithograph of hilly land with wooden houses, fenced fields, workers with a handcart, and grazing cattle.

Nelson

John Waring Saxton

Charcoal sketch of two figures by a campfire, one standing in a cloak, one crouched, with diagonal rain strokes behind.

Campfire scene from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Etching of tall dead cabbage trees with bare branches, birds, dense undergrowth and distant hills under a hatched sky.

Dead trees

Grey watercolour of a river winding through a steep gorge, with a waterfall and a snow-capped peak in the misty distance.

The lower gorge of the Twain

George Sturtevant, 1893

Pencil sketch of grazing animals in a field with a bare tree and dark clouds, on a sketchbook page.

Pencil sketch of cows or horses in A Wellington sketchbook, 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Colour print of a seated chimpanzee with a pink face beside a dark animal with raised ears, on a cream background.

Untitled. From: 10 drawings of animals

Joseph Crawhall

Engraved botanical plate of a Coprosma repens branch with oval leaves, small flowers and separate flower details.

Coprosma repens A. Richard

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman in a feathered hat and long dress, leaning forward with her hand at her chin.

Study of a woman in fashionable dress, leaning forwards

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Engraving of a woman in a long robe by a cypress, looking through an open door at workers on scaffolding in a town square.

The Tower of Brass. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1888

The letter or firelight

Otto Goetze, 1900

Triptych woodblock print of kimono-clad women playing shuttlecock under a bare plum tree, with a child in blue at right.

Bijin jūni kagetsu ((Beauties in the twelve months): number 1 - hagonda (shuttlecock) January

Miyagawa Shuntei, 1898

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in glasses leaning over a table with a patterned cloth and small objects.

Pencil sketch of Hans Kauders

Gertrud Kauders, 1922

Watercolour of a grand old interior with a carved fireplace, coffered ceiling, a man carrying hawks, and a hunting dog.

An old English mansion in the days of hawking

George Cattermole

Woodcut of Christ with a radiant halo seated at a table with two disciples, a meal laid out, under an arched frame.

Christ in Emmaus. From: The small Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Brown ink sketch of beech trunks, moss-covered branches, and bush lawyer vines on tan paper.

Bush studies: Beech trunks, Bush Lawyer

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Sepia print of a young boy with tousled hair in a knit jumper, hands clasped on a ledge against a dark background.

Portrait of Philip Comyns Carr. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1882

Watercolor of three rock slabs with fossilised fern fronds labelled Allthopteris, Jurassic Formation, Waikara.

Allthopteris, Jurassic Formation, Waikara

John Buchanan, 1864

Watercolour of grassy hills and distant blue mountains under a pale cloudy sky, with trees at right.

From the hills above Dunblane

Edward Barraud, 1883

Etched portrait of a seated young man in a checked jacket holding a pencil over a notebook at a wooden table.

Stephen Bone

Francis Dodd, 1928

Pencil sketch of a seated cat with tail wrapped around its body, on a tan sketchbook page numbered 59.

Sketch of seated cat in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved view of Scarborough harbour with a hilltop castle, a tall ship at right, and figures wading in shallow water.

Scarborough

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Woodblock print of two bar-tailed godwits wading in blue water beside tall grey reeds in mist.

Two bar-tailed godwits

Ohara Koson, 1926

Thyrsites atun (Tas) : Barracouta

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolour of a valley town with a church spire, rolling hills, grazing cattle and figures on a path in the foreground.

Nelson, 1858

Henry Maplestone, 1858

Etching of men beneath a thatched umbrella on a riverside ghat, with a temple and boats along the river behind them.

The umbrella. From: the Second Indian plates

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1914

Pencil and watercolor landscape of a stone arch bridge over a rocky river, with trees and hills under cloudy sky.

Linmouth (Lynmouth)

Pencil botanical drawing of a slender plant with narrow arching leaves and flower spikes, with small floral detail studies be

Dracophyllum sinclairii Cheeseman

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Platycephalus sp (Tas) : Flathead

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Engraved print of a seated Madonna holding a toddler with another child at left, set against trees and distant hills.

Madonna and child with St John

Giovanni Fosella, 1841

Watercolour of a dirt lane past a red-roofed brick cottage and trees, opening onto a hazy valley and hills.

Near Bath

William Hardwick