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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Charcoal sketch of a grove of trees with dark foliage and a pale hatched sky, from an 1891 sketchbook.

Sketch of trees. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Drawing of windswept pohutukawa trees above a bay with a rocky headland, grazing cows and rolling hills.

Pohutukawas, Piha

Samuel Birch, 1936

Title page with vignettes of a distant view, The Pines house, a schoolhouse, and bush clearing with tree fern and axe.

Title page: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu. N.Z.

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Pencil sketch of a seated street vendor beside a canopied cart with a large wheel, with a parasol at right.

Street vendor's stall

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolour of a monk reading in an arched doorway, framed by religious paintings, overlooking a bay and mountain.

From the Caminidole Convent, near Naples

William Brockedon

Engraving of the neoclassical Supreme Court building in Wellington with columns, iron railings and a group of men in top hats

The Supreme Court, Wellington, New Zealand

George Henry Swan, 1862

Self portrait

Angelica Kauffmann, 1811

Hand-coloured engraving of thatched huts, a man with spear and shield, a campfire and a stone circle.

Capanne

Andrea Bernieri

Charcoal sketch of a man in a hat bent over reading, drawn loosely on a tan sketchbook page, numbered 41.

Sketch of man reading in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Hand-colored plate of a standing Papua native with circular body tattoos, holding a paddle, with a yellow loincloth.

Native of the Papua Islands. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

J Bull, 1842

Watercolor of a three-masted ship and small boats on choppy sea, with a distant castle on the coast, in a circular mount.

Marine

Pencil sketch of a shepherd with a staff gazing upward on a hillside, with sheep grazing and a tree on the horizon.

The lark

Claude Shepperson, 1910

Watercolour of a bush landscape with rolling hills, native trees, grazing sheep and distant mountains under a soft sky.

Bush scene Marlborough

William Baker, 1900

Hand-painted plate of numbered New Zealand beetles and larvae with scale bars, labelled Plate IX.

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

George Hudson, 1934

Colour print of a stylised vase with round fruit and leaves in orange, red and teal, set among geometric shapes and patterns.

Vase of flowers

Frank Weitzel, 1931

Untitled. (Man's head)

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Pencil sketch of a rugged gorge with cliffs, a riverbed, and travelers with pack horses on a path below.

Principal gorge Hurunui looking up

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour landscape of a winding river, grazing cattle, a small settlement and distant blue hills under a pale sky.

The Molyneux River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Etching of men in turbans weighing goods on a balance scale in a dim interior with brick walls and a brass basin.

The scales

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1921

Pencil sketch of a gabled house with a veranda surrounded by trees and shrubs, inscribed Major Richardson's house on the Puer

Major Richardson's house on the Puerua River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraving of Achilles revealed among women in a classical hall, with a helmet, jewels, herm figures and putti.

History of Achilles: Achilles discovered among the daughters of Lycomedes

Franz Ertinger, 1679

Pencil cloud study on a sketchbook page, dark clouds with light gaps, numbered 30, by Petrus van der Velden, 1905.

Cloud study in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Head

Simeon Solomon, 1895

Circular watercolour of cherubs playing among clouds, one pair carrying a flower garland across a pale blue sky.

Cherubs

Watercolor of a young man in a grey suit writing in a notebook in a sunlit room with a window and books.

Yew tree farm

Walter Crane, 1905

Watercolour of a riverside township below eroded cliffs, with a timber truss bridge in the foreground and figures on the trac

Old Greenstone township and Duke's Terrace

William Marshall Cooper, 1870

Hand painted entomology plate showing green and yellow moths, caterpillars, a pupa and a black moth with white spots.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Pencil sketch of a grazing cow in the foreground, a second cow and fence behind, and a faint mountain on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of cows with Mt Taranaki in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraving of a seated man at a well speaking with a standing woman holding a bucket, with a tree and distant town behind.

Christ and the woman of Samaria

Crispijn de Passe the Elder, 1600

Pencil drawing of a forest track between tall trees and a tree fern, with distant hills and two small figures walking.

First view of the Rimutaka Range

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1848