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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Lithograph of a woman in a long gown with a black fan, reclining on a dark couch beside draped curtains.

Caprice

Ethel Gabain, 1912

Etching of a palm-covered island with a sailing ship, small boats, and fishermen wading on a reef in the foreground.

Océanie: Îlots a Uvea (Wallis): Pêche aux palmes, 1845

Charles Meryon, 1863

Pencil and watercolour botanical study of Forstera sedifolia with white flowers on thin stems and a flower dissection.

Forstera sedifolia Linn.f. (now known as Forstera sedifolia G. Forst.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Charcoal sketch of dark clouds over water with a small boat and figure on a tan sketchbook page.

Sketch in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Sepia print of a woman leaning over a feast table with two panthers at her feet, ships on the sea beyond.

The Wine of Circe. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1863

Mr Sam Howard as "Jim Braggs" in the "Wandering Minstral"

William Francis Gordon, 1874

Hand-painted entomology plate XVII showing eight numbered insects including grasshoppers, a mantis-like insect, cockroaches a

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

George Hudson, 1886

Chromolithograph of snow-capped Mount Egmont over rolling hills, with three figures and two dogs in the foreground.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Mt Egmont

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Watercolour of fishing boats and a large sailing ship on choppy sea under a warm evening sky.

Off the French coast

John Sell Cotman, 1834

Etching of a crowded gallery reception with men and women in hats holding drinks before framed pictures on a wall.

A thirst for art

Watercolour and ink drawing of a cottage with red roof, a bare tree and a grazing calf on a hillside.

Cottage and calf

Raymond McIntyre

Red chalk sketch of a reclining figure in a uniform, drawn with loose diagonal hatching on pale paper.

Two studies of a dead soldier

Watercolour of ships anchored in a tropical bay with canoes, palm trees, huts and a mountain behind the shore.

The view of Huahine, one of the Society Islands in the South Seas

John Cleveley Junior, 1787

Watercolour of a rough timber hut and canvas tent in a forest clearing among tall trees and stumps.

Hut of the "Italian party", old diggings on Buller

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Chromolithograph of a snow-capped mountain peak above a green valley with a river, trees and rocky slopes in the foreground.

Mount Cook

C Kell, 1877

Ink sketch on blue paper of a mustached man in a cap and coat, with handwritten note and signature beside him.

Portrait of a soldier

Francis Grant, 1860

Monochrome print of Lake Rotoiti with hills, a canoe with two paddlers, and shrubs along the shore under cloudy sky.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate III. Roto-iti

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Pencil sketch of a forest with large trees, a small building in the distance, and two figures on a path.

Water of Leith, near Dunedin

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolour of two adjutant storks with long bills and dark plumage standing on a muted purple background.

The Adjutants

Etching of a battered sailing ship with tangled rigging on a choppy grey sea under a vast pale sky.

An act of God

Arthur Briscoe, 1926

Etching of a ruined castle tower on a rocky hill above cottages, with dark trees and small figures on a path.

Peveril's Castle, Derbyshire

Watercolor drawing of a green parrotfish with red fins, handwritten fin counts and caption, and a small shell sketch beside i

Labridae (Tas) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke

Pencil and wash drawing of a river with sailboats and rowing boats, forested banks, wooden huts and snowy mountains beyond.

Kanieri, near Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black silhouette print of a woman in a plumed hat beside the words 'L is for Lady', on a tan background.

L is for Lady. From: an Alphabet

William Nicholson, 1897

Hand-coloured print of a standing Tikopia man with chest markings and shell pendant, with figures and leaves behind him.

Inhabitants of Tikopia. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

J Bull, 1842

Pen sketch of a driver on a horse-drawn reaping machine pulled by two horses across a field.

Reaping and binding

Francis Unwin, 1917

Ocydromus Australis. (Now known as Gallirallus australis australis (South Island weka)

John Buchanan, 1865

Sepia print of armored Perseus reaching toward three draped women seated on rocky ledges under a moonlit sky.

Perseus and the Graiae. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1892

Sepia etching of a Gothic Venetian church facade with pinnacles, a crowd on steps, and gondolas on a canal.

SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venice

Francis Unwin, 1911

Monochrome botanical print of a leafy branch with upright spikes of small clustered flowers on a cream sheet.

Rhagodia candolleana Moquin-Tandon

Sydney Parkinson