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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Botanical print of a slender branching plant with whorled leaves and small flower clusters rising from roots on cream paper.

Galium propinquum Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of moored sailing barges with tall masts beside a timber waterfront inn, figures on the quay, and small sails on the

Anchor Inn, Greenwich

Francis Dodd, 1938

Engraved botanical plate of a flowering branch with large leaves, fruit clusters, and detail studies of flower and seed.

Dysoxylum spectabile (G. Forster) Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of a standing nobleman in plumed hat and ornate costume with a rapier, before a tapestry of a battle scene.

Le Sire de Lumey

Félicien Rops, 1869

Pencil sketch of a house, a horse cart and standing figures on open ground, drawn in a sketchbook.

Sketch of house, cart, figures in A wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Watercolor landscape with tall trees, workers in a field, a rider near a fence, and hills under a cloudy sky.

At Cheshunt

Watercolour landscape of a rocky hillside with boulders, scrub trees and hazy blue hills under a pale sky.

Untitled landscape

Edward Barraud, 1907

Engraving of sailing canoes and a paddled outrigger on open sea, with a distant island under a cloudy sky.

Boats of the Friendly Isles

William Watts, 1777

Engraved botanical plate of Arthropodium cirratum with long leaves, a flowering stem, and a dissected flower detail.

Arthropodium cirratum (G. Forster) R. Brown ex Sims

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Grey wash drawing of fishermen working on a shore with boats, a horse and cart, and sailing vessels under an overcast sky.

Fishermen

John Sell Cotman, 1803

Pencil sketch on blue-grey paper of a tall tree, a branching tree, and ferns and grasses in dense bush undergrowth.

Untitled (Bush near Hokitika)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a cable car on overhead cables crossing a wooded hillside, with handwritten notes below.

Sketch of a cable car. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolour of steep green hills above a curving coast, with a seated figure on a path and sailing boats on the sea.

Paekakariki

John Gully, 1883

Etching of figures at a tea table on a rooftop ledge overlooking a city street with buildings and a carriage.

Arch conspirators

Watercolour of a harbour with a crowded wooden jetty, moored boats, brewery buildings on the shore and a mountain behind.

Near Port Chalmers (Mr. Boy(les?) Brewery)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolor of a brown parrot perched on a mossy branch, bending down to drink, with its reflection in water.

Untitled illustration - parrot

Pencil and wash botanical drawing of two cushion plants with small white flowers, labelled Myosotis pulvinaris.

Myosotis pulvinaris Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Framed engraved oval portrait of a man in a curled wig and white cravat, with a printed caption beneath.

Sir John Clerk of Pennycuick, Bart.

Daniel Lizars Senior

Watercolor of a sunlit market street with whitewashed buildings, terracotta roofs, and robed people walking past stalls.

Malindi market, Zanzibar

Edwin Murray Fuller, 1931

Pencil sketch of a horse with a cart behind it on a sketchbook page, loosely drawn with scribbled graphite shading.

Sketch of horse with cart from A Wellington sketchbook c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Watercolor of a horse-drawn cart on a rural road with a startled man in a top hat and a woman in a straw bonnet.

Illustration for "Pickwick Papers"

Engraving of a seated man and a spear-carrying woman in conversation beside a fountain and armour in a wooded landscape.

Bradmante E Fiordispina

Giovanni Ballero, 1846

Watercolour of a lake outlet and valley with grassy hills, conifers and layered mountains under a pale sky.

Outlet of Rotoiti and Valley of the Upper Buller looking N.W.

James Crowe Richmond, 1863

Japanese woodblock print of figures in kimono at a thatched house beside a pine tree, with travelers, rice fields and mountai

Kanadehon Chushingura (A Treasury of Loyal Retainers), Act 6: Kanpei sumika (At the dwelling of Kampei)

Keisai Eisen, 1820

Loose pencil sketch of a cow with dark hatched shading on a cream sketchbook page numbered 9.

Pencil sketch of cows from A wellington sketchbook, c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Watercolor landscape of a whitewashed farmhouse among trees beside a rocky stream, with a figure walking at right.

Farmhouse

David Cox the elder

Etching of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ, seated with drapery and a thin halo, with a Latin caption below.

The Virgin suckling the infant Christ

Annibale Carracci, 1590

Etched landscape of a wooded river valley with seated figures, sheep and a dog beside a stream under clouds.

Die Römischen Ansichten (Views of Rome)/ Valle Garigliano vicino Olevano

Joseph Koch, 1810

Hand-coloured print of a man in a blue coat with gold braided collar and cuffs, arms folded, from Prichard's Natural History

Jan Tzatzoe, Kafir of the Amakosah tribe. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

J Bull, 1842

Tripterygion robustum (NZ) : Estuarine triplefin

Frank Edward Clarke