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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a busy Venetian street with awnings, pedestrians on steps, a bell tower and a shop sign reading VENDITA.

The Rialto

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Watercolor of a crowded old French-style street with a stone church tower, a blue-covered cart, and townspeople.

The Abbey Towers, La Chaise Dieu

Thurston Shoosmith

Watercolour of snowy mountains above a valley and blue lake, with native trees and flax in the foreground.

Mount Aspiring

John Gully, 1878

Etched head study of an elderly bearded man in a tall fur hat, shown in brown crosshatched lines.

The old Jew's head

Mina Arndt, 1910

Engraved plate of thatched houses on a platform, one gable end with carved panels, beside a large tree and palm.

Storehouse, Tombhouse and Templehouse: Pelew Islands

William Wilson, 1816

Vincentia conspera (Tas) : Southern Cardinalfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Pencil sketch of a tree trunk with textured bark and climbing vines, with handwritten inscription in lower right corner.

Westoe (tree study)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Etching of a water meadow with reeds, a wooden footbridge, a line of trees and three tall poplars under a cloudy sky.

A water meadow

Francis Haden, 1859

Etching of two peasant diggers bending over shovels in an open field with hills and smoke on the horizon.

Les bêcheurs (The diggers)

Jean-François Millet, 1855

Pencil sketch of a bearded soldier in a kilt with one arm raised above his head, standing on a cream sheet.

Two studies of a soldier in a kilt: 1. Dancing. 2. Standing with hand on hip

La femme à la pèlerine (Woman with a cape)

Albert Besnard, 1889

Watercolor and pen drawing of the east side of Waihi Stockade, showing a timber palisade, gateposts, grassy slope and small b

Waihi Stockade, East side

George Sherriff

Hand-coloured plate of a green Uniform Parrakeet perched on a branch, with sketched foliage around it.

Platycercus unicolor. Uniform parrakeet

Edward Lear, 1830

Watercolour of Wellington Harbour with a sailing boat, anchored steamships, wharf buildings and hazy hills under a cloudy sky

Wellington Harbour

James Nairn, 1902

You'd be surprised

Walter Sickert, 1928

Watercolor view through an iron railing of trees and red-roofed buildings in warm ochre, green and blue tones, by Frances Hod

Market at Concarneau from a window of the Hotel des Voyageurs

Frances Hodgkins, 1927

Engraving of a chaotic street scene with brawling men, pigs, a donkey, a brick bridge and onlookers at windows.

Chairing the Members. January 1758

Ernst Riepenhausen, 1758

Watercolor of a blue alpine lake in a valley with snowy mountains and a braided stream in the foreground.

Lake Tennyson

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Watercolor of a farmhouse with laundry on a line behind trees beside a river, with a small bridge in the foreground.

Back of George's farm, Grendon

Edmund Niemann, 1847

Watercolor of rugged cliffs above a rocky coast with a foaming channel and small figures on the clifftop.

Ras-El-Abiad, Coast of Syria

David Roberts, 1839

Watercolor botanical study of a branch with clusters of small yellow flowers and serrated green and rust leaves.

Untitled [Pomoderris Kumeraho]

Fanny Richardson

Lithograph of stone arches and a shadowed vaulted passage, with a small window revealing sunlit trees beyond.

Rock-cut Church, Saint Emilion. From: Ten Architectural Lithographs

Roger Fry, 1930

Watercolor of pink, cream and red roses in a blue and white bowl on a reflective table.

Bowl of roses

Margaret Butler, 1923

Black and white woodcut of a bay with a volcano, a village, sailing boats and framing trees.

De Baai

Johannes Klooster, 1920

Etching of a seated nude woman in a headscarf bending over a basin to wash her feet, set against dark hatched shadows.

Woman bathing her feet at a brook

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1658

Engraving of Christ bound before the high priest Caiaphas, with torch-bearers, soldiers and onlookers in a night setting.

Christ before Caiaphas, plate 4 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Hand-coloured botanical plate of Veronica speciosa with purple flower spikes, green leaves and dissected flower details.

Veronica speciosa

Walter Fitch, 1843

Pen drawing of a serif letter M entwined with a bird head and ivy vine, labelled as a cover design for a Manual of Birds.

Ornamented capital for cover of 'Manual of Birds'

John Buchanan, 1882

Engraved portrait of a woman with wavy hair and a double necklace, against a cloudy sky background.

A Woman of Eaoo

Etching of a corner of a wood with large trees on the left and open hilly countryside receding to the right.

Corner of a wood (Coin d'un bois)

Alphonse Legros