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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Farmer on horseback with a child and cattle on a dusk path, a church on a hill under a crescent moon.

The good farmer

Samuel Palmer, 1865

Etching of a seated woman in a dark dress holding white handwork, with a chair and table beside her.

Mrs Lamm

Anders Zorn, 1894

Ink drawing of a large liner under construction in a shipyard with cranes, scaffolding, workers and warships along the river.

The building of the " Queen Elizabeth", John Brown's Yard, Clydebank

Muirhead Bone, 1938

Watercolour of a whitewashed house and blue building with balcony and terracotta roof under a blue sky.

Fontarabia

Owen Merton, 1911

Etching of courtroom witnesses: a bearded man and another figure at a barrier, with women seated in the foreground.

Témoins à l'audience (Witnesses to the audience)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1908

Watercolour of a seated man in a red coat with a dog on a stone stair in a misty wooded landscape.

A scene in the woods at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire

James Bourne, 1800

Engraving of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, a grieving woman, a young man, a soldier and a skull below.

Crucifixion. From: The engraved Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Black and white engraving of three women washing cloth outdoors beside a wall, a tiled-roof house and a flowering shrub.

Wayside laundry

Watercolour of a calm blue bay with a pale cliffed headland, rocks in the foreground and a clouded sky.

Wellington Heads

Samuel Birch, 1937

Repeating geometric textile design of brown curved bands and cream rectangles with red triangles on an ochre ground.

Untitled (Textile design no III)

Frances Hodgkins, 1925

Engraved print of a nude woman wringing out her hair on steps, flanked by draped women playing harps and lutes.

The Bath of Venus. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1973

Study( figure of young Edwardian woman)

Charles Nuttall

Rachel Rothenstein

Eric Gill, 1926

Black and white woodcut of a village street with bare trees, a tall gabled building and a figure in a doorway.

Condé-en-Brie

Rhona Haszard, 1929

Etching of flat marshland with a dark tree in the foreground, a winding river, and distant farm buildings under a pale sky.

Winchelsea Marshes

Frank Short, 1910

Watercolour of a fishing boat beached below a rocky cliff and ruined tower, with fishermen and women on the shore.

Return of fishing boat

William Collins

Grey botanical illustration of a rosette plant with lobed leaves and daisy-like flower heads on a cream sheet.

Kirkianella novae-zelandiae (Hooker f.) Allan

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Winter landscape print of bare willows, dark firs on a hill, and a snowy river bank in muted brown and blue tones.

Willows and firs

Black and white etching of three nude women and a seated man beside a peacock, set among foliage and a distant coast.

Judgement of Paris

John Buckland-Wright, 1950

Engraved botanical print of a Pseudopanax branch with long serrated leaves and clusters of small flowers.

Pseudopanax crassifolius (Solander ex Cunningham) C. Koch in C. Koch & Fintelmann

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Four panels of grey-wash drawings showing fossil fern fronds on rock slabs, labelled in pencil.

Fossil plant specimens, Upper Jurassic, Mataura

John Buchanan, 1864

Pencil sketch of a large rounded rock formation on rocky ground with a pale cloud at left, by John Lewis.

On Mount Sinai

John Lewis, 1843

Botanical drawing of a plant with slender flowering stems, small blossoms and oval leaves on a cream sheet.

Myosotis forsteri Lehmann

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Charcoal sketch of a steep valley with a fallen tree trunk over rocks and snowy peaks in the distance.

Preparatory drawing for Otira painting. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Red chalk sketch of a robed figure raising a whip among figures and coins in an interior with columns.

Christ driving out the money changers

Bernardino Poccetti

Abstract print of angular red, white and black forms under a yellow sky with a ringed black disc and a dark ground.

Landscape

Jankel Adler, 1948

Pencil sketch of a woman in a long dress leaning on a table, head resting on her arms in grief.

Study of a woman in fashionable dress, in grief, leaning against a table

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Drawing of a fossil fern specimen with pinnate fronds across a grey rock fragment, on a cream sheet with handwritten labels.

Fossil plant specimen

John Buchanan, 1864

Sepia print of two draped women embracing beside a flaming altar, with a winged youth on steps behind them.

The Altar of Hymen. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1874

Watercolour of Mount Cook at dusk, with pink-lit slopes, trees and a rocky path rising through misty blue sky.

Mount Cook - an afterglow above the mist

William Hodgkins, 1890