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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Hand-painted plate of numbered New Zealand beetles showing adult beetles, larvae and pupae with scale bars.

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

George Hudson, 1934

Watercolour of a wide river with a wooden bridge, a small boat, a house on the left bank and wooded hills beyond.

Parramatta River (No 7)

George Sherriff

Abstract colour print of interlocking pink, blue and red shapes with a reclining figure, signed Gleizes 45, numbered 64/300.

Composition

Albert Gleizes, 1945

Etching of a classical building facade with a columned portico, stone steps, shuttered windows and curved iron balconies.

The Old Treasury

Engraving of Judas kissing Christ as soldiers with torches seize him, while Peter strikes a fallen man with a sword at lower

The Betrayal of Christ, plate 3 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1598

Engraved-style print of a winged angel holding a large glossy sphere, with detailed feathered wings and a draped robe.

The Days of Creation: The First Day. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1876

Pencil drawing of trees along a river with a hill and small buildings behind, and a figure in a boat at right.

Newry, Mr Molesworth's, River Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1844

Woodcut print of Christ's betrayal: armed men seize a haloed figure while a disciple draws a sword, with a kneeling man in fr

The betrayal of Christ. From Der schatzbehalter oder schrein der wahren reichthumer des heils und der ewigen seligkei…

Michel Wolgemut, 1491

Woodblock print of a kabuki actor with a topknot and white face, wearing a blue and red patterned kimono.

Jitsukawa Enzaburo as the Jester (Taikomochi) Nisaku, from the series Tales of Valour in Full Bloom (Hankajin yuden)

Ryūsai Shigeharu, 1849

Sepia print of a woman in flowing robes seated on a crescent moon beneath a starry night sky, head bowed.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1872

Pen and ink print of a standing clergyman in a wide-brimmed hat and round spectacles, hands clasped at his waist.

The priest

Joseph Simpson, 1925

Etching of a quiet European church square with an arched portico, a square tower, shuttered houses and a fountain.

The sleeping square

Sydney Lee, 1928

Pencil study of a seated child with a bob haircut in a dark bathing suit, hands clasped, gazing to the side.

Study from life. (Girl seated in bathing suit)

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

The pianist

Alphonse Legros

Black and white woodcut of a kneeling Madonna with a haloed child, with the text 'With Good Wishes for Christmas'.

Madonna and Child: Madonna kneeling

Eric Gill, 1914

Ink drawing of a robed woman reaching toward foliage beside a flame, with a temple and trees behind her in a black border.

Myrto's invocation

Pale outline drawing of a contorted female dancer with arched back and raised arms against a dark grey background.

La danseuse Kham Luong No. III

John Buckland-Wright, 1935

Etching of the Virgin with the Christ Child and young John the Baptist, a lamb at right, before classical columns.

Virgin and Christ Child with John the Baptist

Orazio Farinati, 1583

Etching of two workers filling sacks beneath a dark, crosshatched timber framework and rafters.

Filling sacks

George Clausen, 1912

Grey tonal print of a river with a small boat, forested banks and mountains under clouds.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate V. Waiau River

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Watercolour of a harbour town with a tower building, masted ships at anchor, and brown hills beyond the bay.

Tower of old Government House

William Marshall Cooper, 1874

Black and white drawing of a wide city avenue with pedestrians on a terrace, a lamp post, and a distant domed Capitol buildin

The Capitol from the Treasury

Watercolour of sandy dunes with grasses, a flat plain, and distant hills under a pale grey sky.

Dunedin from the Ocean Beach

James Crowe Richmond, 1865

Hand-coloured lithograph of a green valley with snow-capped mountains, riders on a dirt road and cabbage trees in the foregro

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Rangitikei

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Profile (the artist's wife)

Ambrose McEvoy, 1923

Watercolour of a green native parrot foraging among leaves and ferns on a mossy bank, with bare trees and hills behind.

Native parrot in a moss and bush setting

Margaret Stoddart, 1885

Grey wash drawing of a forested riverbank with tall trees and undergrowth reflected in still water.

Wiltshire River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolor still life of yellow blossoms in a blue vase against a violet background, with fallen petals on the table.

Yellow blossom and rosemary

Margaret Stoddart, 1897

Grey wash drawing of trees in a wood, with a fallen log in the foreground and two small figures at the left.

Trees in a wood

Thomas Gainsborough

Watercolor and ink landscape of rolling fields, trees, and a church tower under a pale blue sky.

Landscape with church

Raymond McIntyre, 1915