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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a dusk river with wooden warehouses, a crane, moored boats and a distant church spire.

Twilight, King's Lynn

Henry Brown, 1928

Grey botanical print of a branch with oval leaves, flower clusters and small detached flowers at lower right.

Hypserpa decumbens (Bentham) Diels in Engler

Sydney Parkinson

Grey night view of lit New York skyscrapers across harbor water, with smoke drifting between towers and a barge below.

From Cortlandt Street Ferry

Joseph Pennell, 1908

Caricature lithograph of a committee of men listening to a reader gesturing beside a table with a manuscript.

Tout-ce-qu'on voudra / Un comite ecoutant la lecture d'une tragedie

Honoré Daumier

Botanical drawing of a branching Cardamine plant with lobed leaves, small white flowers, long seed pods and roots on cream pa

Cardamine debilis Banks & Solander ex de Candolle

Sydney Parkinson, 1770

Pencil sketch of mountain peaks and ridges on a sketchbook page, with handwritten labels and the number 57 in the corner.

Sketch of mountain peaks in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil sketch of a rocky gorge with a waterfall, a stream over boulders, forested slopes and a small wooden bridge.

Otira Gorge, N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil and wash drawing of a windmill, a large tree, resting figures, and a wooden gate in rolling countryside.

Landscape with windmill

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing a rocky ridge, loose cloud forms and hatched ground, numbered 47.

Sketch in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Brown wash drawing of wooded hills, rocky cliffs and calm water with distant mountains and small houses.

Untitled (Near Port Chalmers)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Pen and watercolour drawing of a woman in a white cap reading in a room with a window, desk, and fireplace with urns.

"An old time chamber it was"- (Scene from "Theodore Hook")

David Wilkie, 1836

Hand-coloured print of a wide harbour with ochre headlands, rocky islets, rolling hills and a distant mountain under hazy sky

Distant view of Port Nicholson, Wellington

Vincent Brooks, 1857

Etching of a man in a dark beret and white collar, face shaded in dense hatching, turned toward the viewer.

Self-portrait in a cap and scarf with the face dark: bust

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1633

Four drawn rock slabs showing fossil fern-like fronds with pinnate leaflets, labelled Dammarites from Shag Point, Otago.

Fossil plant specimen. Dammarites corinata Hector

John Buchanan, 1864

Watercolour view of a harbour town with sailing ships, a steamship and rowing boats below steep green hills, 1867.

Picton

Wilbraham Liardet, 1867

Sepia print of a windswept female figure in flowing robes floating over an evening landscape with a village and river.

Vesper, or The Evening Star. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Botanical drawing of fern specimens showing whole plants, fronds, and enlarged leaflets with spore dots on cream paper.

Ctenopteris heterophylla (Labillardiere) Tindale

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolour of a sad boy standing with his hand on his chin in a schoolroom beside an overturned ink pot and scattered object

The shadow on the wall

Hand-painted plate of numbered New Zealand beetles and larvae with scale bars, arranged in a grid on cream paper.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate VII]

George Hudson, 1934

Engraved botanical illustration of a plant with round flower heads on tall stems and a detail inset of a flower.

Craspedia uniflora G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of samurai and horses crossing a rough river with mountains behind.

The Battle at Uji River

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1849

Brown wash drawing of a river with a rainbow over village houses and willow trees, reflected in the water.

The Avon above the bridge at Stratford-on-Avon

Monochrome botanical plate of a leafy branch with small flowers, buds and a detail of flower parts.

Coprosma lucida Forster & G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Entomology plate with a grey-painted fly, numbered wing diagrams, insect detail sketches, and a black-and-white butterfly pho

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate B]

George Hudson, 1946

Etching of a large thatched hut with figures, palm trees and mountains in New Caledonia.

Nouvelle-Calédonie: Grande case indigène sur le chemin de Ballade à Poëpo, 1845

Charles Meryon, 1863

Engraved botanical print of a plantain plant with broad ribbed leaves, four flower spikes and visible roots on cream paper.

Plantago raoulii Decaisne in de Candolle

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of a steep mountain gorge with a rushing torrent, a waterfall, and figures resting by a campfire on a ledge.

Mountain torrent

Joseph Barber, 1829

Etching of thatched farm buildings on a hilltop with tall poplar trees, two walking figures, and an empty sky.

The farm on the hill top

Martin Hardie, 1927

Watercolour of a sandy beach with driftwood and grass tussock, wooded hills and calm water beyond, under a pale sky.

Grey River, on the beach

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair, wearing a sash, star badge and medallion, within a decorative border.

Queen Anne

John Goldar, 1784