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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Hand-coloured print of an Ottoe chief in fur robe, red feathered headdress, claw necklace and holding a pipe.

Wah-no-nee-sah(The surrounder) An Ottoe chief From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

John Harris, 1842

Botanical drawing of a slender Polygala plant with narrow leaves, two flower spikes, and roots on cream paper.

Polygala longifolia Poiret in Lamarck

Sydney Parkinson

Three-part pencil panorama of a town with a church spire, trees and distant hills under a large mountain.

Onehunga, Auckland N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Woodblock print of a woman in a blue kimono with bamboo pattern and geta sandals, beside a vertical Japanese calligraphy sign

Woman in front of the Tagawaya Teahouse

Keisai Eisen, 1815

Engraved botanical print of Velleia paradoxa with serrated leaves, white flowers, and detail studies of its parts.

Velleia paradoxa R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a large boulder beside a rocky slope with pine trees, grasses and shrubs, signed Francis Unwin 1920.

The boulder

Francis Unwin, 1920

Watercolor of a weathered farm building beside a field with a walking figure, grazing cow, and rolling hills.

Farm building

Frederick Sedgwick, 1910

Monochrome botanical drawing of a grass-like plant with a spiked flower stem and small floral dissections beside it.

Cartonema spicatum R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolour of moored boats and a white-sailed yacht on calm teal water, with soft blue hills and a hazy sky.

Evening after rain, Auckland

Alfred Walsh, 1911

Black and white print of a barefoot woman in a wind-blown cloak on a rippled shore under a swirling sky.

Windy shore

John Buckland-Wright, 1946

Pencil botanical illustration of a slender plant with needle-like leaves and small flowers, with dissected flower parts besid

Mitrasacme laricifolia R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a hilly valley with stone farm buildings, a stone bridge in the foreground, and rain falling at upper right.

Braes O'Mar

Henry Brown, 1915

Pencil sketch of hilly terrain with hatched shading and loose clouds above, on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of landscape. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Botanical drawing of a slender Utricularia plant with small flowers at top, roots below, and two enlarged flower parts.

Utricularia caerulea Linnaeus

Sydney Parkinson

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, ruff collar and doublet, standing with one hand on his hip.

Sir Walter Raleigh

William Thackeray

Color caricature of a standing man in gray suit and blue cravat with spectacles, leaning on a pedestal and holding a pen.

Sir Edmund Gosse. From : The Bookman Portfolio, December 1927

Spy Junior, 1927

Botanical drawing of a branching Sarcostemma australe stem with clusters of small star-shaped flowers and enlarged flower det

Sarcostemma australe R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Brown wash drawing of South Mavora Lake with trees on the shore and jagged mountains in the distance.

South Mavora Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraving in an oval roundel of reclining classical gods, one holding a trident and another wearing a helmet.

Apollo, Neptune, Pluto and Athena. From a series of four engravings: Gods and goddesses in roundels

Pencil botanical drawing of a branching plant with lobed leaves and enlarged flower dissections at lower right.

Xanthosia pilosa Rudge

Sydney Parkinson

Charcoal sketch of a seated woman reading a book with a child leaning on her shoulder, on a sketchbook page.

Pair of seated figures indoors in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour botanical study of Forstera bidwillii with white pink flowers, trailing green stems and exposed roots on cream pa

Forstera bidwillii

Fanny Richardson, 1924

Black and white botanical print of a branching plant with narrow leaves, spiky flower clusters and small floral details.

Misodendrum brachystachyum de Candolle

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a street scene where a seated man is having a tooth pulled while onlookers watch, with a tree and building behind.

The five senses (touch)

Watercolour of a boy fishing from a log in a river, with a town and trees on the banks under a grey sky.

River scene - boy fishing

William Beverley, 1840

Monochrome botanical print of a leafy branch with curled flowers and a detached flower study, on cream paper.

Grevillea mucronulata R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor and pencil sketch of a log hut interior with a plank door, stone fireplace, and hanging cloth.

The hut

David Cox the elder

Coloured lithograph of Nelson town, bay and snow-capped mountains seen from a wooded hillside, 1877.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Nelson

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Engraved botanical plate of a climbing plant with trifoliate leaves, small flowers and seed pods on a cream sheet.

Atylosa reticulata (Aiton) Bentham

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of a striped moth with spread wings, two side-view butterflies and a small wasp on a pale background.

Muscarum scarabeorum ... varie figure. Plate 7. Two butterflies, a wasp and a moth

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1646