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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Pencil sketch of two figures in an interior, one seated at a table and one standing near a window.

Two figures

Petrus van der Velden

Merluccius australis (NZ) : Hake

Frank Edward Clarke, 1871

Watercolour of green hills, a river junction with farm buildings, and a blue mountain range under a pale sky.

Junction of Slate and Aorere Rivers, Collingwood Goldfields

James Crowe Richmond, 1869

Botanical drawing of a leafy branch with oval fruit clusters and small flower spikes on a cream sheet.

Nestegis apetala (Vahl) L. Johnson in Degener

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor and pen drawing of a silver Photichthys argenteus fish with a smaller head sketch and handwritten fin counts.

Photichthys argenteus (NZ) : Lighthouse fish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1871

Etching of a horned demon at a workbench with elves, witches, a black cat and bats in a cave setting.

Elfin arrow manufactory

George Cruikshank, 1830

Engraved botanical plate of a branching Pelargonium plant with lobed leaves and small flower clusters on a cream sheet.

Pelargonium inodorum Willdenow

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of a whitewashed cottage beside a waterfall and mill, with two figures at the door and wooded hills behind.

The water mill

Sepia wash drawing of a seated woman, a child, and two bearded men in classical dress before draped curtains.

Study for picture

Alfred Edward Chalon, 1798

Etching of a curving river with rows of moored boats along the bank and a small boat drifting in open water.

The evening river. From: Fourth Indian plates

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1927

Monochrome print of two women in a classical room exchanging a laurel branch, with white doves and a worktable nearby.

The Godhead Fires. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1878

Etching of sheep grazing in Hyde Park at twilight, with the Albert Memorial and a spire in the distance.

Hyde Park : The Albert Memorial (twilight)

Tristram Ellis, 1881

Watercolor of a bay with green cliffs, offshore rocks, and a tall tree with ferns in the foreground.

Coast near George McLean's

William Hodgkins, 1889

Etching of a woman in a large hat and fur wrap, looking sideways with one hand raised, against a pale background.

Betty Nansen

Anders Zorn, 1905

Engraving of Cain striking nude Abel beside a tree, with hatched shading and a cloudy sky behind.

Cain killing Abel

Lucas van Leyden, 1524

Faint pencil sketch of a sailing ship's hull and masts on pale green sketchbook paper, numbered 39.

Blank page. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Monochrome print of two winged angels on a tomb ledge, a robed woman gesturing, and a haloed figure at right under an arched

The Morning of the Resurrection. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1886

Watercolour of the steamship Wellington at sea under a pink and grey sunset sky, smoke trailing from its funnel.

Wellington

William Forster, 1870

Charcoal sketch of rugged mountain ridges and slopes in loose diagonal hatching on a sketchbook page numbered 59.

Sketch of hills/peaks from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Grey wash drawing of a seated man in a tricorn hat beside a large tree, looking over a distant rural landscape.

Landscape with seated man

Pen and ink sketch of Lower Mavora Lake with mountain ridges, a calm lake, a distant boat and trees on pale blue paper.

Lower Mavora Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of two sailboats with masts and hatched sails on a sketchbook page.

Sketch with sailboats in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Three engraved figures in Italian dress illustrating hand gestures, with a man in a cape shrugging in the centre and a woman

Italian gestures / Badate / Troppo tardi / Non e possible

Richard Bridgens, 1820

Pencil panorama of Dunneed showing a church, rural huts, haystacks, grazing cattle and gum trees under a wide sky.

Dunneed, Australia

Nicholas Chevalier, 1862

Head of a soldier

Francis Grant, 1860

Pencil sketch of a woman with short hair and a sidelong gaze, drawn on cream paper, dated 1918.

Self portrait

Gertrud Kauders, 1918

Old man's head

Pencil sketch of a standing draped figure in a doorway on a sketchbook page, numbered 37, with hatched shading.

Figure sketch in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Red chalk drawing of the Holy Family with the infant St. John and a lamb, figures with soft hatched shading.

Holy Family with the Infant St. John and lamb

Antonio da Correggio

Etching of a calm lake with wooded shores, rolling hills, and two people in a small boat.

Coniston

David Read, 1845