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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Woodblock print of a standing woman in a blue striped kimono with ornate hairpins holding a small object near her face.

Standing beauty

Keisai Eisen, 1828

Hand-colored print of a woman of the Aleutian Islands with braided hair, blue top and red collar, 1842.

Woman of the Aleutian Islands. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

Hippolyte Baillière, 1842

Engraved print of a tavern scene with a woman carrying a basket, seated men at a laced table, and a dog on the floor.

Nell Gwynne

Charles Landseer

Hand-coloured print of the ship Samuel Enderby under full sail on choppy sea, with a coastline and other vessels behind.

The Samuel Enderby

William Huggins, 1835

Grey and olive painting of white waves breaking around dark rocks, with a distant headland under an overcast sky.

Coastal scene

Sepia print of a sleeping figure by a fountain, a winged archer beside a poppy plant, and draped women in a garden.

Chaucer's "Dream of Good Women". From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Etching of travelers with horses on a rocky path beside trees and a pond, with distant cliffs under a cloudy sky.

Italianate landscape

Etching of a ruined stone windmill with broken sails above tall grass, with a bent tree and fence in the foreground.

Rose's Mill

Sydney Smith, 1920

Monochrome print of two nude figures embracing beside a flowering tree with spring crocuses in a landscape.

Phyllis and Demophoon. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1870

Etching of a man and woman talking in a village yard with a dog, hen, tree and well in the background.

Man and woman talking

Adriaen van Ostade, 1650

Monochrome print of three profiled spectators in hats peering left against a dark background, likely a theatre box.

Interested spectators

John Singleton Copley, 1895

Watercolor of a sailing boat with two figures beside a small rowing boat near rocky shore under cloudy sky.

Boats

A Brotherton, 1835

Pale blue watercolor of a snow-covered mountain peak above alpine ridges and dark conifer forest.

Summit of Dent du Midi from Bex, Switzerland

James Crowe Richmond, 1875

Watercolour of a windswept coastal slope with leaning trees, a bay of water to the right, and a driftwood log in the foregrou

Coast near Paekakariki

Edward Barraud, 1911

Hand-coloured satirical print of men burning scrolls before a blazing Parliament building, with a crowd in the background.

True reform of Parliament, ie Patriots lighting a revolutionary bonfire in New Palace Yard

James Gillray, 1809

Watercolor of a stone château beside a river, with trees on the left, grazing cattle on the bank, and a pale sky.

Château in Normandy

John Sell Cotman, 1835

Grey wash drawing of a river winding through a valley toward snow-capped mountains, framed by steep cliffs and trees.

Wills Valley

George Sturtevant, 1895

Watercolour of a sandy beach and rocky headland with three small figures walking by the sea under a pale sky.

Point Elizabeth looking SSW

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Study for female figure in engraved illustration to Amor Mundi

Frederick Sandys

Etched portrait of a man with curly hair, moustache, lace collar and draped cloak, inscribed Paulus du Pont Calcographus.

Paulus Pontius. From Icones principum virorum ('The Iconography')

Anthony van Dyck, 1645

Etching of two nude figures balancing on a plank above a shadow, with dense hatched lines in the background.

Balance

Anders Zorn, 1919

Two sailing boats on rough night water under a full moon behind clouds, with figures on the foreground deck.

Fishing boats in moonlight

George Henry Andrews, 1869

Black and white woodcut of a winged figure on rocks beside a pond with a row of frogs and dark foliage.

Concerto

Charles Nightingale, 1925

Pencil drawing in oval frame of a dirt road with a tall pine, cottages, a fence, a walking man and dog, and hills.

Otago landscape

Watercolor drawing of a silvery hatchetfish in side view with detail sketches of fin and scale structures.

Argyropelecus hemigymnus (NZ) - common hatchetfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1877

La lecture de l'office (Reading of the Office of the Day)

Alphonse Legros, 1868

Woodcut print of a stylized carousel horse against swirling orange and blue spiral rays.

The merry-go-round

Cyril Power, 1930

Watercolor drawing of a female dog shark in side view with handwritten notes about its size and location.

Mustelus antarcticus (Tas) : Dogfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Etching of a ragged old beggar in a high cap leaning on a stick, wrapped in a tattered cloak.

Beggar in a high cap, standing and leaning on a stick

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1629

Etching of a farm with thatched huts and a castle on a hill under dramatic clouds, with a figure working in the foreground.

Farm at the monastery (Le Ferme de l'Abbaye)

Alphonse Legros, 1893