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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Pencil botanical drawing of a slender Utricularia plant with small flowers and enlarged flower details on cream paper.

Utricularia chrysantha R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved botanical plate of a shrub with narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers, with flower dissections at lower left.

Pimelea longifolia Banks & Solander ex Wikstrom

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil botanical sketch of a small slender plant with tiny buds and dissected flower parts on a cream sheet.

Mitrasacme pygmaea R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor portrait miniature of a woman with wavy hair shading her eyes, standing beside a leafy tree, in a dark wooden fram

Portrait miniature (Woman shading her eyes)

Monochrome botanical drawing of a leafy branch with small star-shaped flowers and an enlarged flower detail.

Canthium coprosmoides F. Mueller

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved botanical print of a plant with serrated leaves and small daisy-like flowers on an upright stem.

Wedelia spilanthoides F. Mueller

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved botanical plate of a leafy branch with heart-shaped leaves, flower buds and seed capsules on cream paper.

Eucalyptus alba Reinwardt ex Blume

Sydney Parkinson

Black-and-white botanical print of two Tetragonia branches with oval leaves and small buds on cream paper.

Tetragonia tetragonioides (Pallas) Kuntze

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Woodblock print of an elderly warrior in a purple hood writing on paper beside armor, helmet, and a tree on a green hillside.

Courageous Warriors (Musha burui): 25: Gen sanmi Yorimasa

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1883

Etching of sailing boats on calm tidal water, with a grounded vessel and horse and cart on the flats at right.

The incoming tide

Martin Hardie, 1923

Botanical drawing of a slender branching plant with small leaves, flower buds, and roots on a cream background.

Gonocarpus montanus (Hooker f.) Orchard

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Engraved portrait of a man in a long curled wig within an oval frame, with a cherub and an axe below.

William Lord Russel

Black and white botanical drawing of a climbing vine with trumpet flowers, lobed leaves and buds on a pale ground.

Calystegia tuguriorum (G. Forster) R. Brown ex Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Hand-coloured engraved portrait of a Kamchadal woman in a thick fur collar, from Prichard's Natural History of Man.

Kamtschadale. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

Hippolyte Baillière, 1842

Etching of a man in a tall hat striding with a cane while a woman in a long skirt is pulled behind him beside a tree.

The ghost of Mrs Leckie

George Cruikshank, 1830

Watercolour of moored sailing boats and brick warehouses along a hazy harbour front with a distant church spire.

Liverpool Docks

St James Minor. Plate 1. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Black-and-white engraving of a rounded stone tower with an arched doorway, a curving road, and hatched sky.

Ypres Tower, Rye

John Frederic Greenwood, 1924

Sepia ink sketch of two standing men in an interior, with a handwritten note above describing the thumb and hands.

Ecclesiastical portraits [Charles Thomas Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury]

Francis Grant, 1860

Watercolour of a stone arch bridge over a canal, horses towing a barge, and a brick wharf with a thatched shed.

Cheddington wharf and canal, Buckinghamshire

John Buckler, 1818

Caesioperca rasor (Tas) : Sea perch

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Engraving in an oval frame of women and a winged child resting on clouds, with a cornucopia at the right edge.

Juno seated on a cloud

Line drawing of a creeping botanical specimen with round leaves, small flowers and roots on a cream sheet.

Centella uniflora (Colenso) Nannfeldt

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Charcoal sketch of a woman in a bonnet kneeling and scrubbing a floor beside a bucket.

Woman scrubbing

Petrus van der Velden

Ink and watercolor sketch of a red-coated rider blowing a horn on horseback, with a dog hiding in bushes nearby.

Hide and seek

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Standing. 2. Lying on chair

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolour of a castle on a wooded headland with sailing boats on a river channel.

Dartmouth Castle

Harriet Lister, 1778

Watercolor of a lone tall tree in grassland with eroded cliffs and hills under a cloudy sky.

Valley of the Mason, Highfield Rim. Amuri, Nelson

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pencil sketch of a tree with feathery foliage and several birds perched on branches against a faint horizon.

Design for etching

Engraving of a crowded fashionable 18th-century interior with figures around a dressing table and an arched alcove with curta

Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 4. The toilette

William Hogarth, 1745