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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Botanical illustration of a small plant with toothed leaves, a thin stem and a single daisy-like flower head on cream paper.

Lagenifera pumila (G. Forster) Cheeseman

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of thatched houses and raised storehouses by a fence at Akaroa, with figures and wooded hills behind.

Greniers indigènes et habitation à Akaroa, presqu'île de Banks, 1845

Charles Meryon, 1865

Engraved facade with rows of caryatids, a central female bust, and a doorway with two small figures below.

Facade with caryatids

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Hand-coloured botanical plate of a slender Campanula with blue star-shaped flowers, buds and narrow hairy leaves.

Campanula gracilis

Sydenham Edwards, 1803

Pencil drawing of a river with boats on the bank, a sailing boat, a row of tents under trees, and distant hills.

On the River Grey, N.Z. (miners' camp)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a seated nude male figure on a stool, turned toward the viewer, with loose shading.

Untitled [Study of a male nude]

Petrus van der Velden, 1869

Black ink botanical illustration of a trailing plant with trifoliate leaves, small flower clusters and roots on cream paper.

Schizeilema trifoliolatum (Hooker f.) Domin in Engler

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Engraved botanical print of a branching Pimelea arenaria plant with clustered white flowers and a small flower detail.

Pimelea arenaria Cunningham ex Hooker

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Brown ink sketch of a standing man with a walking stick in a doorway, with handwritten inscriptions above and below.

The Duke of Buccleuch

Francis Grant, 1860

Watercolour of a seated man in a top hat on a dog-cart with two harnessed dogs beside a London milestone.

Man in dog-cart

Watercolour plate of eleven numbered New Zealand neuroptera insects, winged adults and larvae, with scale bars.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate I]

George Hudson, 1904

Untitled. (Man's head)

Elizabeth Berry, 1929

Watercolour of mounted cavalry troops in blue uniforms before a redoubt with buildings and a chimney on a grassy hill.

Right troop, Alexandra Cavalry, Manaia Redoubt

George Sherriff

Panoramic colour lithograph of Dunedin, New Zealand, showing rooftops, church spires, a harbour with ships and surrounding hi

Dunedin, New Zealand

Loose crayon sketch of a woman in a shawl and long skirt holding a milk pail, on cream paper.

Le lait

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1913

Watercolour of a steam train winding along a railway through a wooded valley, with distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Rimutaka railway from above Cross Creek

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1887

Engraving of nymphs gathering golden apples from trees in a garden, with a figure carrying a basket among dense foliage.

Nymphs in the garden of the Hesperides picking the golden apples

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Full-length colour print of an elderly bearded man in a black academic gown and grey waistcoat, standing before a pale backgr

Sir Oliver Lodge. From : The Bookman Portfolio, December 1927

Spy Junior, 1927

Watercolour landscape of a plain with trees on the right, stone wall, and blue mountains under a hazy sky.

Waipoua

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolour and pencil landscape of Ohau Lake with snowy mountains, a small hut and trees in soft pastel tones.

Ohau Lake (Mt Cook)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a seated figure in an interior with wooden beams and vertical posts.

Dutch interior

Petrus van der Velden

Etching of a stone gateway framing a distant tower and street, with a woman and two children in the foreground.

The Gateway of Bruges

David Young Cameron, 1907

Monochrome print of a nude woman on a stone block beside a robed man in a sculptor's studio with marble chips.

The Hand Refrains. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1878

Etching of a narrow city street with an ornate clock bracket, scaffolding, overhead wires and pedestrians.

Liberty's clock

Muirhead Bone, 1909

Crapatulus novaezealandiae (NZ): Sand stargazer

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Athennidae (Tas)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Pencil sketch of a man lying across a round table with another figure leaning over its edge, arm hanging down.

Two studies of a Swiss climber: 1. Lying across table. 2. Leaning across table

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Engraved bust portrait of a man in a high-collared coat, labelled Thomas Harrison, on cream paper.

Thomas Harrison

Pencil-style print of railway tracks and cranes at Miraflores Lock on the Panama Canal, with workers and smoke under a cloudy

Panama Canal early morning Miraflores Lock

Joseph Pennell, 1912

Engraved portrait of a bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat, with an Italian inscription below naming Pietro Aretino.

Pietro Aretino

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647