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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Sepia print of a young girl in a ribboned bonnet and lace collar, gazing upward beside a leafy tree with a bird.

Spring

Francesco Bartolozzi

Watercolor of pale chalk cliffs curving around a bay with small boats and figures under a soft evening sky.

Speeton Cliffs, Filey, Yorkshire

Watercolor sketch of a curly-haired young man leaning over an open book on a desk, in muted brown and blue washes.

A student

Petrus van der Velden

Black and white print of a nude woman with a hair bun bathing in a pool surrounded by palms and tropical plants.

Laotian bather

John Buckland-Wright, 1936

Etching of a group of figures on a rocky shore by calm water, with a seated figure in the foreground under a hazy sky.

Orpheus

Mina Arndt, 1915

Engraving of a lion, bull, bear and two wolves fighting in an arena while spectators watch from above.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 12. Fight between a lion, bull, bea…

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Colored caricature of a group of men in suits before a red backdrop, with a coat of arms and two portraits, by W. A. Bowring,

Untitled - Walter Armiger Bowring, 1916

Walter Armiger Bowring, 1916

Pencil and watercolour study of two clumps of white-flowered cushion plant with rosette leaves and labelled name.

Hectorella caespitosa Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of a narrow alley with hanging cloth, a seated woman at a table and a standing man in a wide-brimmed hat.

The rag gatherers

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Engraving of men with axes killing large crocodile-like reptiles beside a river, with willow trees and mountains in the backg

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 46: Decapitating crocodiles

Jan Collaert the Younger

Pencil drawing of an elderly woman in a white bonnet and dark shawl, looking forward, with handwritten inscription below.

Head of an old Dutch woman

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil sketch of a forest clearing with a tree fern, thatched hut, plank building and a small figure.

Buck's Store, Stokes Valley

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1840

Etching of a farmhouse on a rolling hillside with a winding path, hedgerow and dark tree line under a pale sky.

Hobb's Hawth no. 2

Frank Short, 1923

Portrait of Constance McIntyre

Raymond McIntyre, 1905

Watercolour of a sandy beach with wooded cliffs on the left, driftwood in the foreground and a calm hazy sea.

Golden Bay, near Clifton

James Crowe Richmond

Hand-colored print of two bust portraits: a man in a grey cloak labeled Abbas Gregorius, and a woman in a red headwrap labele

Abbas Gregorius e gente Amharica; Native of Hausa From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

Hippolyte Baillière, 1842

Hand-coloured print of a bay with sailing boats, a thatched hut on the shore, wooded hills and distant snowy peaks.

Okarita, a digging township

John Diedrich Schmidt

Watercolor botanical study of white mountain gentian flowers with purple striped petals on reddish stems and small leaves.

Mountain Gentian, Mt Ruapehu

Fanny Richardson

Watercolour of a calm lake with snowy mountains, a sailboat, cabbage trees and shrubs in the foreground.

Wanaka Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of a rocky cliff above a still pond, with a kneeling woman at the water's edge and grazing cattle on the hills.

Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 205. Un Rocher dans les Communaux de Rix (Ain). (A Rock face in the common lands of Rix (…

Adolphe Appian, 1863

Three-panel Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono among cherry blossom trees, with a tea service on a veranda.

Bijin Junikagetsu (Beauties in the twelve months): March

Miyagawa Shuntei, 1898

Etching of a seated woman holding a sleeping infant, a child nearby, a bearded man behind and a donkey resting on the right.

Rest on the flight into Egypt

Etching of a seated elderly woman in a headscarf beside a dark room with shelves of jars and bowls.

The French set. La vieille aux Loques (The old rag-picker)

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Watercolor of the Gorge of Hurunui showing hills, distant mountains and a pale sky above an open golden plain.

Gorge of Hurunui

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pencil sketch of a winding road over rough hillside with scrubby shrubs and bare branches, from a sketchbook page.

Sketch of road from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Black and white print of stylized pointed arches with cross-hatched white textures on a dark background.

Design of arches

Paul Nash, 1926

Watercolor sketch of comic figures in a tavern, with a laughing man in a feathered hat and men tumbling near a chair.

Illustration to "Barnaby Rudge"

Hand-painted entomology plate XVIII showing a small cricket-like insect and a larger spiny insect with long antennae.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XVIII]

George Hudson, 1886

Watercolour of a settler's wooden house and shed in a clearing with tree stumps, forest behind, blue sky.

Settler's home, Merton, near New Plymouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1851

Engraving of the Rape of the Sabines showing Roman men abducting struggling women before an architectural backdrop.

The rape of the Sabines

Cherubino Alberti, 1570