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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a riverside wharf with brick warehouses, moored boats, tall sailing ships, and a seated boy in the foreground.

Eagle Wharf (Tyzac, Whiteley & Co.). Plate 11 from Thames set

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Woodblock print of blue mountains, a waterfall, and a boatman in a small boat beneath rocky cliffs.

A boatman ferrying visitors to coastal sights, from the series Toshi fafu no uchi (Drawing Album for Chinese Poems)

Totoya Hokkei, 1810

Watercolor of a large oak tree with a gnarled trunk and spreading branches in an open park landscape.

Oak in Kettlestone Park

James Crowe Richmond

Pencil sketch of a steep mountain slope and valley on a sketchbook page, labelled Porters Pass, numbered 51.

Sketch of Porters Pass from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil drawing of a thatched cottage with a tall central chimney, a doorway, and scrubby ground in the foreground.

Scotch Jock's cottage near Paraparaumu

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1849

Etching of a man fishing by a lake with a dog, a leaning tree at right, and a cliff and clouds behind.

Lake scene with man fishing

David Read, 1838

Etching of a man in a cap blowing a long horn beside a wooden stall with hanging bread loaves.

A baker blowing his horn

Adriaen van Ostade, 1648

Pen drawing of fishermen hauling nets from boats, with kneeling women and robed men in the foreground.

The miraculous draught of fishes

Battista Franco Veneziano

Charcoal drawing of a hooded shepherd with a staff, a dog and sheep in the foreground, and a hillside behind.

The shepherd

Petrus van der Velden

Hand-coloured hunting print of red-coated riders in top hats jumping a stream with hounds running across green countryside.

The Marquis at home. Plate 3. Tipperary glory. From: Moore's Tally ho! To the sports : a set of 4 sporting prints

George Hunt, 1853

Watercolour of an old cobbled street with gabled houses, figures with baskets, and a church spire in the misty distance.

Old street, Chester

Pencil sketch of rocky sea stacks and grassy shoreline at Lyall Bay near Wellington, with distant mountains and a bird in the

Lyall Bay near Wellington

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Etching of three women mourning around a reclining figure beside a wooden cross and a basin of water.

Pieta

Jean-Louis Forain, 1910

Botanical drawing of a willowherb plant with narrow leaves and small white flowers at the top, labelled Epilobium pallidiflor

Epilobium pallidiflorum Solander ex Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Panoramic watercolor of the Awatere Valley with a river, hills, distant peaks and two spiky plants in the foreground.

The Awatere Valley, January 13, 1872

Reverend John Kinder, 1872

Joseph Conrad listening to music

Muirhead Bone, 1923

Hand-coloured lithograph of Lake Taupo with a snow-capped volcano, canoes on the water and a shoreline settlement.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Lake Taupo

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Grey wash drawing of snowy mountain peaks and a rocky ridge with a cloud above, signed George Sturtevant 1895.

Ryan's Peak from South Ridge

George Sturtevant, 1895

Botanical print of an Olearia furfuracea branch with grey oval leaves and clusters of small white flowers on cream paper.

Olearia furfuracea (A. Richard) Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of Moses kneeling beside sheep, gazing at a burning bush, with a walled town on the hill behind.

Moses and the burning bush

Andrea Meldolla, 1544

Chromolithograph of a green plain with a stream, flax, a wooden footbridge and sheep, backed by snow-capped mountains.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Mount Alford

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Sketchbook page with smudged graphite figure at center and a pencilled hand outline at upper right.

Sketches in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Notolabrus celidotus (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke

Pencil sketch of a river valley between mountain ranges, with grass in the foreground and a smaller study at right.

Hurunui Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black and white woodcut of a standing figure holding flowers beside a table with fruit and a patterned curtain.

Still life

Edward McKnight Kauffer, 1922

Hand-colored print of a green Pacific parakeet with red crown and blue wing patches perched on a branch.

Platycercus pacificus. Pacific parakeet

Edward Lear, 1830

Botanical drawing of three slender stems with small white flowers and narrow leaves on a cream sheet.

Epilobium glabellum G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil sketch of trees, a spire and low buildings on a sketchbook page, with handwritten label at upper right.

Sketch of trees and buildings. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Watercolour of a ruined stone tower and steps above a hazy blue mountain valley, with small figures in the foreground.

Italian mountain scene

John Ruskin, 1833

Pencil sketch of a craggy island rising from choppy sea, labelled Solander and dated 17 Aug 66.

Solander Island

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866