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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Pencil sketch of a standing figure beside a wooden hut with bundled gear and a sack on the ground.

Sketch from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved interior of a rustic house with seated figures, a woman with vegetables, and hanging produce, with Latin text below.

Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis

Count Hendrik Goudt, 1612

Etching of a Romanesque church doorway with a carved tympanum, framed by columns and capitals, opening onto a shadowed interi

The doorway, Vézelay, France

Albany Howarth, 1915

Watercolor and pencil drawing of a windmill beside a calm river with reflections and a distant treeline under a pale sky.

River landscape with Windmill

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolor of a fishing boat heeling in rough green seas, crew huddled aboard, with another sailing vessel behind it.

Fishing boat at sea

George Henry Andrews

Pencil sketch of the Taieri River between steep cliffs and hills, with a small boat on the water.

Taieri River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Print showing a bearded man resting in bed beside a shadowed chair, with crosshatched wall and window in the background.

Portrait of Charles Meryon on his sick bed

Léopold Flameng, 1858

Watercolour of a bay seen through framing trees and tree ferns, with white cliffs, hills, and a figure with a horse in the fo

Untitled (New Zealand seascape)

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1863

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in a straw hat reading while reclining among large ferns on pale blue paper.

Lynwood

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor drawing of a flathead fish in side view with annotated fin counts and handwritten labels.

Leptoscopus macropygus (NZ) : Estuarine stargazer

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Etching of a Spanish street during a Good Friday procession, with cloaked figures, banners, whitewashed houses and dark hills

A Spanish Good Friday, Ronda

Muirhead Bone, 1925

Watercolour of riders and a pack horse crossing a rocky stream through a dense forest with large trees.

Crossing the Teremakau River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1876

Black and white print of a lake with canoes, thatched houses, and wooded mountains in the background.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate I.Horowhenua Lake

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Etching of two large trees over a stone bridge and stream, with a seated figure on the parapet.

Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 173. Environs de Rix (Ain) (Environs of Rix [Ain])

Adolphe Appian, 1865

Watercolour of a river winding through a valley with trees, a hut by a fence, blue hills, and a figure in a boat.

Upper Hutt Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Engraved portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh in an oval frame, with a cherub, globe, and anchor below.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Watercolour of rocky sea stacks and boulders on a shoreline under a pale, cloudy sky.

Boom Rock Papanui [sic]

William Baker, 1900

Pencil panoramic sketch of Benmore Station with homestead buildings, rolling hills and mountains, annotated by hand.

Benmore Station (Lake Ohau)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Painting of a ruined castle on a rocky cliff above crashing sea waves under a hazy sky.

The sea king's castle

William Kinchela, 1897

Sepia print of winged Cupid leaning toward reclining Psyche, holding hands, beside a rose garden and distant city.

Cupid and Psyche. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1867

Watercolour of a crowded harbour with sailing boats moored at a quay, figures on the wharf and brick buildings behind.

Old Billingsgate

George Henry Andrews

Watercolor of Rouen Cathedral's south portal with a rose window, spires, and a busy cobbled street of townspeople.

Cathedrale de Rouen, portail du midi. From 'Foreign Cathedrals'

Charles Wild, 1823

Engraved portrait of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, in a dark caped coat and white cravat, with signature below.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington

T Woolmoth, 1829

Pencil sketch of city rooflines and chimneys on a sketchbook page, with a faint path and fence sketched below.

Pencil sketch of city rooflines from a Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Watercolour of a veiled woman reading beside a Gothic stone tomb with an effigy in a cathedral interior.

In Salisbury Cathedral

Joseph Nash, 1834

Triptych woodblock print of samurai fighting with swords and rifles in a room with a red door and chandelier.

Samurai fighting, Satsuma rebellion

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1877

Monochrome print of a wooden bridge on leaning timber piles over water, with cottages and shadowed stone walls behind.

The bridge, Staithes

Westley Manning, 1920

Watercolour landscape of deer on rolling hills, with a castle among trees and a hazy plain beyond under cloudy skies.

Arundel Park

Watercolor drawing of a flounder fish with labeled species notes, painted in greens, browns and orange fin tones.

Rhombosolea tapirina: Flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Etching of a harbour with sailing boats, timber on a quay, workers, and a town skyline with a church spire.

Autumn evening, Lowestoft

Muirhead Bone, 1934