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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Engraved title page with a tower, two rearing lions, a winged Mercury figure and a portrait medallion of Raphael de Turri.

Title-page to 'Tractatus de Cambiis' by Raphaele de Turri [Raffaele della Torre]

Cornelis Bloemaert, 1641

Pencil sketch of a river beside a steep wooded cliff, with a small house and trees in the foreground.

The great perpendicular terrace on the Teremakau

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Ink sketch of a standing man in a long coat with a walking stick, with a landscape of hills behind him.

Full length portrait [James Henry Robert Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe] with landscape background

Francis Grant, 1870

Colour woodblock-style print of a grey heron wading among reeds in blue water against an orange background.

Heron

Allen Seaby, 1915

Watercolor of a golden plain below layered mountains with reddish slopes and distant snowy peaks under a cloudy sky.

Dome Pass and the Five Rivers Plain

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraved portrait of a haloed woman gazing upward, holding a covered vessel, with a dedicatory inscription below.

Ego Dilecto Meo

Giovita Garavaglia

Sepia print of a knight and a woman bending over an octagonal pedestal holding severed heads, within a garden of apple trees.

The Baleful Head. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1887

Etching of a tall church tower with battlements beside a village lane, a shop with an open sign on the left and trees.

Happisburgh (Haseboro') Church, Norfolk

Muirhead Bone, 1934

Engraved portrait of Sir Thomas More in a fur-trimmed gown and chain, in an oval frame with a mace and cushion below.

Sir Thomas More

Watercolor of a river with reeds, a red brick arched bridge, large trees and soft clouds in muted greens and browns.

Landscape with river

Hand-colored engraving of a striated tern with grey plumage perched on a pink rock beside red seaweed, plate XCVIII.

Striated Tern. Plate XCVIII. From A General Synopsis of Birds

John Latham, 1785

Charcoal drawing of a patterned jug of flowers on a tray with two mugs, set before a woodland landscape.

Jug of flowers

Frances Hodgkins, 1929

Loose charcoal sketch of a cow in a landscape on a tan sketchbook page, numbered 47.

Sketch of cow in landscape in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Lithograph of Lake Coleridge with a small sailboat, mountains, clouds and rocky foreground under a pale sky.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate IV. Lake Coleridge

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Brown watercolour of layered sandstone cliffs above a beach, with two small figures and a distant sailing ship at sea.

90' fault and coal seam, 7 1/2 miles North of Greymouth

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Watercolour and pencil sketch of a steamboat with two funnels and drifting smoke on a sketchbook page.

Watercolour scene of boats

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Pencil and watercolour botanical sketch of white flowers and green cushion-plant foliage with a handwritten species label.

Donatia novae-zelandiae Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of elegant women and a seated man in an oval frame, with an allegorical woman and lion above and a reclining figure b

Les amusements des dames de Bruxelles

Félicien Rops, 1881

Etching of a bearded man in a fur hat raising his hand while smoking, with loose hatched lines on a pale background.

Le fumeur

Édouard Manet, 1866

Watercolor of a sandy shore with chalk cliffs on the right and a wooden pier stretching over calm water under a hazy sky.

Coast and cliffs

James Baker Pyne, 1843

Watercolour of a curving sandy bay with offshore rocks, hills and trees framing the left foreground, 1866.

Wiltshire Bay and the Nuggets, Otago coast

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black and white woodcut of a lush hanging garden with dense trees, a curved terrace, an arched bridge and two small figures.

Hanging garden

Paul Nash, 1924

Etching of a rocky wooded landscape with a seated figure holding a staff and two figures on a path under clouds.

Romantic scene with figures in mid distance

David Read, 1831

Etching of two columned neoclassical buildings across an open plaza, with a castle on a rocky hill at upper left.

Royal Scottish Academy

David Young Cameron, 1916

Watercolour still life of cream roses in a glass vase and ceramic bowl, with purple flowers and loose petals on a brown backg

Roses (white)

Margaret Stoddart, 1924

Etching of a crowd of workers and pedestrians walking along a busy city street, by John Sloan.

Return from toil

Etched portrait of a man in a turban and patterned robe, with fine hatching, by Wenceslaus Hollar.

Turk's head

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Pictilabrus laticlavius (Tas) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolour landscape of a wooden barn, trees and a wooded hill under a pale blue sky, inscribed Dunedin.

Dunedin

James Crowe Richmond, 1866

Watercolour of misty blue mountains and a forested valley, with small figures resting on a path in the foreground.

Adams Peak, Ceylon

Nicholas Chevalier, 1870