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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Untitled (Man sitting holding a cricket bat)

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Engraved botanical plate of a branch with a cylindrical flower spike and fine needle-like leaves on cream paper.

Banksia ericifolia Linnaeus f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of Meppershall Chapel with a steep gabled roof, wooden gate, stream and stepping stones beside a wooded hillside.

Meppershall Chapel

Frederick Griggs, 1915

Pen and brown ink landscape of a calm lake with mountains, trees on the right shore, and a small boat on the water.

Untitled (Lake Ohau)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hebe

Angelica Kauffmann, 1770

Watercolor sketch of a Gothic church facade with a crowd of townspeople, a green cart, and shop signs on a city square.

The butter market, Montreuil

George Thomson, 1906

Galaxias brevipinnis

Frank Edward Clarke, 1887

Clare

Eric Gill, 1922

Watercolor botanical study of a white daisy-like Celmisia flower with yellow centre and narrow silvery leaves.

Celmisia sessiliflora Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolour of a white-water torrent rushing through a narrow rocky gorge framed by trees and steep cliffs.

Mountain torrent

Francis Nicholson

Pencil sketch of a street scene with a stone building, market figures under an awning, and men in hats on the right.

In Segovia

John Lewis, 1832

Watercolour of a glacier and snowy peaks rising above brown hills and a pale lake.

Waiau Glacier, Mount Cook range

William Marshall Cooper

Woodblock print of samurai in blue and brown kimono around a seated figure in white robes on a platform.

Kanedehon Chushingura; Act 4: Seppuku of Lord En'ya

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Hand-colored engraving of sailors firing muskets at warriors on a palm-lined shore, with a boat in the surf.

The death of Captain Cook

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1785

Botanical print of a leafy sprig with small white flowers and enlarged floral and seed dissections beside it.

Styphelia nesophila (de Candolle) Sleumer

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Engraving of three nude figures before a brick wall in flames, with a winged angel descending above them.

The Holy Children

Eric Ravilious, 1929

Watercolor of a man in a red cap and yellow jacket with companions on a sandy shore, boats on water beside.

Figure on the seashore

Etching of a man in a feathered hat and fur cloak with a woman in a bonnet seated behind him, both looking out.

Self-portrait with Saskia

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636

Engraved harbor scene of boats, seaside houses, chalk cliffs and figures on a stone quay.

Vue prise dans le port de Dieppe (View of the port of Dieppe)

Jeanne Ozanne, 1771

Black and white woodcut of Madonna and child in a glowing arch, with three crowned kings bearing gifts on the right, and the

Epiphany

Eric Gill, 1917

Three women in Italian costume demonstrate hand gestures in a 1820 print by Richard Bridgens, with Italian captions below.

Italian gestures/ Non importa/ Cattivo/ Aspettate un poco

Richard Bridgens, 1820

Stippled print of a woman's head and shoulders wearing a wide-brimmed hat, face left light against dark dotted shading.

Female head

Grey ink botanical illustration of a leafy branch with serrated leaves, labeled Betula antarctica in handwriting.

Nothofagus betuloides (Mirbel) Oersted

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etched three-quarter portrait of an older bearded man in a light overcoat, looking to the right against a pale background.

William Robinson

Francis Dodd, 1908

Etching of a horse pulling a cart piled with seaweed across wet sand, with a figure walking beside it under a stormy sky.

Carting seaweed

George Soper, 1890

Engraved botanical plate of a Coprosma branch with large oval leaves and clusters of small flowers on a pale background.

Coprosma robusta Raoul

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Brown wash landscape of a river with an arched bridge, ruins on a hill, mountains, and a figure with dogs in the foreground.

Mountain scene with ruins

Richard Henry Hilditch, 1832

Hand-coloured print of Auckland Harbour with rocky hills, a settlement with church spires, the water and a distant mountain.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Auckland Harbour

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Engraved botanical plate of a fern frond with a detailed leaflet study and rhizome, labeled Pteris macilenta.

Pteris macilenta A. Richard

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Heads of two young women. Varie figurae

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645