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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Grey wash botanical illustration of two Euphrasia cuneata stems with small white flowers and toothed leaves on cream paper.

Euphrasia cuneata G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolour of a ruined medieval abbey gatehouse with pointed arches, trees at right, and three figures on a grassy hill.

[Melrose Abbey]

Etching of a peasant family at a table, an old man praying over a bowl while a woman holds a baby and a child stands nearby.

Saying grace

Adriaen van Ostade, 1653

Woodblock print of figures on a bridge battling wind that blows papers and an umbrella over a river and willows.

Strong wind on the Shin-Ohashi Bridge, from series Comical views of famous places in Edo

Utagawa Hirokage, 1859

Woodcut print of tulip buds in a striped vase on a grid-patterned cloth, light lines on a dark ground.

Tulips in a vase

Raymond McIntyre, 1925

Engraved oval portrait of Henry VIII in a feathered cap and jeweled chain, with Latin inscription below.

Henry VIII

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647

Black and white print of a steam train on a raised track beside a lake, with wooded hills and mountains behind.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate I. Wellington Railway

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Pencil botanical drawing of a slender Epilobium plant with narrow leaves, small flowers at the top and roots at the base.

Epilobium billardierianum Seringe ex de Candolle subsp. billardierianum

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of a village street with half-timbered houses, women in aprons, and crates in the foreground under a cloudy sky.

Darnetal, Normandy

Pencil sketch of low hills under a heavily hatched cloudy sky, on a sketchbook page numbered 2.

Double page sketch of hills in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Pencil sketch of a standing man in a long robe and cloak, head turned left, one arm extended.

Two studies of a priest: 1. Seated with book. 2. Standing, delivering a sermon

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch of house roofs and chimneys above a steep grassy hillside, on a sketchbook page.

Pencil sketch of house roofs from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Engraved botanical plate of two fern fronds with narrow leaflets rising from a horizontal rhizome on cream paper.

Arthropteris tenella (G. Forster) J. Smith ex Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Monochrome engraving of a stormy sea with a rocky outcrop, rowing boat, sailing ships and a coastal town beneath cliffs.

Sidmouth

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Graphite sketch of a mountain ridge and rolling hills on a tan sketchbook page, numbered 25.

Landform sketch in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil sketch of the Otira Hotel with George Dyer lettered on its front, surrounded by trees and hills, numbered page 73.

Sketch of 'George Dyer Otira Hotel' in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolor of a Gothic cathedral and gatehouse framed by autumn trees, with small figures near the arched entrance.

Canterbury, 1885

Albert Goodwin, 1885

Pencil sketch of masted ships and small boats in a harbour, with city buildings and church spires along the distant shore.

Shipping scene

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Sketchbook page with soft charcoal smudges suggesting a dark sky and faint forms, numbered 9 in the lower right corner.

Charcoal sketch of church under dark sky in a Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Engraved view of rocky Three Kings Island in choppy sea, with a small sailing ship on the horizon under clouds.

Three Kings Island in 40 fathoms on the N.W. side

Joseph Collyer, 1770

Pencil sketch of a sailboat with two figures on rippling water, with birds in the sky, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of sailboat in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Etching of a young woman with raised arms standing on stretchers before a crowd of onlookers.

Lourdes, the miracle

Jean-Louis Forain, 1912

Pencil sketch of a church with a spire and gothic windows beside rooftops, on a cream sketchbook page.

Pencil sketch of church from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Lithographic portrait of a seated man in a dark coat resting his arm on a wooden chair, within an octagonal vignette.

Portrait of Robert Patterson

Thomas Maguire, 1849

Engraving of Christ bound to a column while soldiers and attendants prepare to flog him in a stone city square.

The flagellation, plate 6 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Etching of a horseman with raised whip on a canal towpath beside a barge, with a bare tree and distant town under cloudy sky.

On the Bridgewater Canal

George Jacomb-Hood, 1880

Loose pencil sketch of two figures beside a wheelbarrow with tall trees and sketched sky behind them.

Landscape with two figures. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1874

Woodblock print of a white cockatoo on a branch beside a split red pomegranate against a black background.

Cockatoo and pomegranate

Ohara Koson, 1930

Watercolour of a steel trestle viaduct crossing a deep gorge, with hills and a cloudy sky behind it.

The viaduct, Waikoau

Dorothy Richmond, 1927

Hand-painted plate X showing numbered beetle illustrations and a larva with scale bars on a cream background.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate X]

George Hudson, 1934