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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor of a Mediterranean village of red-roofed houses below blue mountains and green fields under a pale sky.

Village ensemble - Banyuls-sur-mer

Owen Merton, 1924

Engraving of a winged devil reclining on flames above churning water, with smoke and lightning in a dark sky.

Devil reclining on a bed of flames

Gerard van der Gucht, 1725

Sepia print of a barefoot woman in a draped gown holding mirrors on a wooden walkway beside a canal and old buildings.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1896

Etching of a half-timbered old inn with gabled roofs, tall chimneys, bay windows and an archway, with a seated figure in the

The Maypole Inn

Frederick Griggs, 1929

Oliver Cromwell

Watercolour of a large wrecked sailing ship tilted on a shore, with men wading in surf and anchors in the foreground.

Wreck of an East Indiaman

Engraved plate showing figures in a canoe, a bark shelter under palms, and numbered weapons and tools including spears, clubs

Aborigines and their artifacts

Carl Hirschmann

Hand-colored print of a brown and white Newfoundland dog standing on grass before mountains and a lake.

Newfoundland dog

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1886

Chromolithograph of the white silica terraces of Te Tarata by a lake, with a canoe in the foreground and distant mountains.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Te Tarata Roto-mahana

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Engraved portrait of a seated man in a dark coat beside a table with an open book, quill and bookcase, by Samuel Cousins.

William Wilberforce Esq.

Samuel Cousins, 1834

Red chalk sketch of a seated woman in a long dress and feathered hat, hands folded in her lap.

Study of a woman in fashionable dress, seated

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch of a snowy mountain valley with a river, trees, and small buildings, with handwritten notes along the edges.

View from the Otira towards Teremakau

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a timber-clad country house with brick chimneys, a fence, figures, laundry and chickens on the lawn.

Country home

James Malton, 1796

Pencil and chalk sketch of a calm creek lined with tall trees and reeds, with reflections in the water and a pale sky.

Creek near Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of a curved bay with surf, rocky headlands, wooden fences, small huts and figures on a sandy shore.

Charleston Harbour

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Black and white woodcut of the crucifixion with angels, mourners, a mounted soldier, and a skull in the foreground.

Crucifixion. From: The large Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1497

Grey watercolor of rugged mountain peaks and a rocky valley foreground under a pale cloudy sky.

View of watershed looking towards Dusky Sound from saddle at head of Cockburn

George Sturtevant, 1896

Watercolour of a river lined with willows, a seated woman reading on the bank and a standing man beyond her.

The river

George Kilburne

Pencil drawing of jagged mountains above a lake shore with a small group of buildings in the distance.

Whakatipu, Frankton Arms, Remarkables

James Crowe Richmond, 1867

Etching of a Holy Family in a dim interior, a woman holding a child beside a man at a table by a bright arched window.

Holy Family in an interior

Ferdinand Bol, 1643

Engraving of a standing allegorical woman holding a flag with an eagle, beside a coat of arms, rocks, and a distant city.

Patience. From: The Virtues

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Etching of a stone-columned old museum with steps, a gabled archway, small figures and a bare tree beside it.

The Old Museum, Beauvais

David Young Cameron, 1917

Etching of a towering old rata tree in a dense bush forest with tree ferns and a path leading into the distance.

An old giant of the bush, Rata

Trevor Lloyd, 1923

Pastel portrait of a man in a green hat and striped tie, drawn on brown paper with warm, sunlit tones.

Sunlight (self portrait)

H. Linley Richardson, 1946

Watercolour of a seated woman in a flowing dress among cushions, beside a jar and a latticed window, in warm yellow tones.

The favourite

Mrs Mary Tripe, 1918

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of rolling hills with grazing livestock and fence posts in a landscape.

Sketch of livestock in landscape in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Pencil and wash sketch of a thatched cottage, a woman in red and a child, trees, and a stone bridge.

Unfinished study

John Sell Cotman

Green lithograph on a fan-shaped sheet of a woman seated in an interior beside a window, drawn in loose hatched lines.

The Bath

Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1908

Three grey-brown wash drawings of angular fossil plant fragments with handwritten labels naming Taeniopteris stipulata and Cl

Fossil plant specimen. Taeniopteris stipulata Hector

John Buchanan, 1864