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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor of a Japanese-style palace garden with a waterfall, pavilion, pond, pine tree and small groups of figures.

The Mikado's Palace Gardens, Yedo

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Grey wash drawing of Ripon Minster towers above village houses, with a large tree at left and small figures in the foreground

Ripon Minster

Etching of the Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ seated on clouds, with radiating light lines behind them.

The Virgin and Child in the clouds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Hand-colored print of the Nativity: Mary in blue seated beside the infant Christ, Joseph leaning over, starry sky through an

Untitled [Nativity]

Randolph Schwabe, 1920

Etching of sailing boats on rough sea under clouds, with small figures in the foreground water.

Marine. Plate 17 from the series: Trente Eaux-fortes

Édouard Manet, 1864

Etching of a man in a hat dancing closely with a woman in a white dress, with onlookers sketched behind them.

La danse à la campagne (Dance in the country)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1890

White chalk drawing on gray paper of a winged sphinx beside a nude figure with raised arms under a crescent moon.

The Riddle of the Sphinx

Walter Crane, 1886

Hand painted plate of thirteen numbered cicadas in brown, green and orange tones with transparent wings, labeled Plate XVII.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Hand painted entomology plate showing adult crane flies, larvae and pupae with numbered figures and scale bars.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Monochrome print of a seated wood nymph surrounded by dense laurel leaves, holding a small object in one hand.

Wood Nymph. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1877

Etched print of St Francis reclining beside a skull while a winged angel plays a lute on a cloud above.

St Francis consoled by a musical angel

Francesco Vanni, 1595

Etching of a rustic Dutch farm with thatched roofs, large trees, grazing cows and a distant windmill across a flat field.

A Dutch farm

Martin Hardie, 1930

Pencil and watercolor botanical drawing of yellow flower clusters on a stem with a detailed single flower head beside it.

Senecio cassinioides Hook.f. (now known as Brachyglottis cassinioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of the Seine with a stone bridge, a steamboat, moored barges, trees on the right bank and a distant city skyline in r

Vue du Pont des Saints-Pères

Félix Bracquemond, 1877

Abstract geometric print with triangles, circles and diagonal bars in blue, grey and black on a rust-brown background.

Gris

Wassily Kandinsky, 1931

Watercolor drawing of a rattail fish with a tapering body and fan-shaped fins, labelled Macrurus australis, dated 1872.

Coelorinchus sp (NZ) : Rattail

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

White line print of the Virgin and Child on black, with Latin inscription and a small cross in the upper corner.

Virgin and Child

Eric Gill, 1938

La belle Anglaise

Francis Haden, 1864

Watercolour of a verandahed timber residence among trees, backed by warm hazy mountains under a pale sky.

The Ministerial Residence

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1862

Painting of the steamship Rangitira with dark sails under a blue sky, sailing through choppy sea with a red ensign flag.

N.Z.S.S.C. Rangitira

William Forster

Brown wash drawing of a mounted armoured rider, two women in a Gothic archway, and a child with a dog.

Illustration - George Cattermole

George Cattermole

Helicolenus percoides (NZ) : Perch

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Pencil sketch of a forest clearing with tall trees, a white tent, and two figures beside a lantern and campsite.

At the foot of Hurunui Saddle

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Colour print of a standing man in a dark suit with one hand on a hat, captioned A. E. W. Mason, 1927.

A. E. W. Mason. From : The Bookman Portfolio, December 1927

Spy Junior, 1927

Watercolour of cattle resting in a meadow beneath large trees and a grey sky, with distant woodland.

Greywell, Hants

Pencil sketch of an old thatched timber barn with a man carrying a sack beside barrels and trees.

An old barn

John Sell Cotman, 1814

Sepia print of a forest camp with tall tree ferns, two tents, and a lone figure walking beside rocks.

The start

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Etching of a rocky mountain with small climbing figures, a winged woman blowing a trumpet from a cloud, and a crowd below.

Mount Parnassus

Stefano Della Bella, 1661

Pastel drawing of a river bank with bare and leafy trees, tall grasses in the foreground, and still water at left.

Untitled. [River scene with ? willows]

George Sherriff

Watercolor landscape of a river under a cloudy sky, with dark green trees on the right and figures in a meadow.

The River Orwell

David Muirhead, 1910