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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor of a thatched barn in a farmyard with a horse, two pigs, a wicker basket and a large tree.

Farmyard at Compton

Sepia print of a rural valley with a steam train on a railway line, farm buildings, a tree line and distant hills.

View from Duke of Manchester's land

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Hand painted entomology plate labelled Plate XV showing fourteen numbered cicada specimens with translucent wings in green, o

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XV]

George Hudson, 1946

Ink and pencil sketch of a seated woman in a jacket, turned three-quarter view, on tan paper, titled Self portrait.

Self portrait

Gertrud Kauders, 1919

Print of a silver fish with open jaws on a pebbled shore beside grass and a wooden boat hull, with calm water behind.

Untitled - Samuel Kilbourne, 1879

Samuel Kilbourne, 1879

Engraving of three plumed men seizing two women on a path, with trees, fallen figures and a distant city behind.

Two women being abducted by three masked men

Abraham Bosse, 1639

Misty winter print of a snowy riverbank with bare shrubs, rippling water and pine trees fading into fog.

Snow on the river

Grey wash watercolor of a river gorge with snowy mountains, rocky cliffs and trees, with a bird flying above.

The lower gorge, Copland River

George Sturtevant, 1893

Watercolour of a winding river valley with cliffs, native trees and cabbage trees under a cloudy sky.

Upper Rangitikei

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Sepia print of a robed man gesturing to a wreathed woman at a stone doorway beside a garden channel and bare trees.

The Garden of Idleness. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1884

Etching of an interior with a round table under a hanging lamp, with a seated man, a woman in a dress, and a figure at left.

The music room

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Pastel portrait of a young woman with auburn hair in a white blouse with a bow, against a green background.

Etude

James Nairn, 1898

Daumier lithograph of a top-hatted man with cane looking at a woman whose cloak is blown by wind on a cobbled street.

Tiens... vla un homme qui s'est déguisé en femme!.. Plate 37 from Tout ce qu'on voudra

Honoré Daumier, 1848

Watercolour of autumn trees with golden leaves reflected in a river, with a brick building at right.

Autumn at Braunston, North Devon

Etching of a woman raising her arms to pin a plumed hat decorated with a flower, drawn in loose hatched lines.

Le chapeau épinglé (Pinning the hat)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1894

Etching of a crowd stoning a kneeling young man, with raised stones and arched city buildings behind the figures.

The stoning of St Stephen

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor raising a fan, wearing a crane-patterned robe, with a hillside landscape behind him.

Morishita, between Shono and Kameyana: Actor Ichikawa Enzo Hori no Ranmaru, from the series Fifty-three Stations of t…

Utagawa Kunisada, 1852

Pencil panoramic sketch of a river valley with hills and trees, annotated with handwritten compass directions across two join

Untitled (river scene with Compass points, possibly near Dunedin)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketches of a boat hull and branches with handwritten notes and repeated script letters on a sketchbook page.

Inside back cover of An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor landscape of a misty lake, distant castle ruin, mountains, and small figures on a path beneath a crescent moon.

Castle, North Wales

Henry Maplestone, 1855

Sketchbook page with grey pencil handwriting in cursive, numbered 3, with crossed-out words and short notes at the bottom.

Page with text from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Sepia illustration of a male and female quail among grass and reeds, the male standing and the female crouching.

The quail (male and female) Coturnix Novae Zelandiae

Johannes Keulemans, 1873

Watercolour of a sailboat and rowing boat on choppy sea before pink-lit mountains under a hazy sky.

New Zealand coastal scene

John Gully, 1886

Watercolour of a bay with a small settlement, anchored ships, and a man with a telescope on a hill.

Kororarika, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Charles Johnson Pharazyn, 1843

Etching of a village with a church spire on a hill, trees in the foreground, and hatched clouds in the sky.

The village on the hill

Karel Dujardin, 1658

Watercolour of a river through a wooded valley with autumn trees, rocks and a small footbridge under a pale blue sky.

Mangaroa River, Upper Hutt Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a wide hat with pipes resting across his knee, signed by Petrus van der Velden.

Two studies of a Swiss climber: 1. Resting with pipes across knee. 2. Blowing pipes

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch of a calm river flanked by steep cliffs, wooded slopes and a rocky outcrop, with distant hills.

Castle Rock on the Taieri River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolour panorama of a Wellington town with a church spire, harbour ships, green hills and white clouds.

Town and part of Wellington

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Diodon, Egg Island Bay

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870