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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Sepia print of a river valley with hills and cliffs, and a two-storey house with a tower in the foreground among trees.

Manawatu Block from Westoe

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Engraving of men catching birds at night by torchlight in a forest, with cages, a lantern and smoke, and a town in the distan

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 82. Catching birds by night

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Engraved botanical print of a flowering plant with serrated leaves and clusters of small tubular flower heads.

Senecio minimus Poiret in Lamarck var. minimus

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of a shadowed cave with rocky walls and foliage, with a woman, a man with a staff, and a child on a path.

The cave

François Vivarès

Watercolor of steamship Taranaki with red funnel racing past a second ship on choppy sea under cloudy sky.

Exciting race between the S.S. "Taranaki" and "Albion". The "Taranaki" passing the "Albion" outside of Otago Heads

William Forster

Double-page pencil sketch in a sketchbook showing loose strokes of a ridge and rocky landforms, page numbered 64.

Double page landscape sketch from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil and watercolor botanical study of an alpine daisy with a yellow centre, rosette leaves and roots, labelled Brachycome

Brachycome sinclairii Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolour of a curved bay with hills, houses on the shore, canoes on the water and a sailing ship at anchor.

Kororareka Beach, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Thomas Gardiner, 1856

Pen and wash drawing of men carrying a limp body past columns and an arched niche, with a child watching at left.

The entombment of martyrs by SS Abdon and Sennen

Guillaume Courtois, 1657

Lithograph of men resting on a ground before whitewashed buildings with iron balconies and hanging laundry.

On a southern shore (Alassio)

John Singleton Copley, 1929

Abstract painted landscape with green foliage, dark twisting trees, white blossoms and red and yellow accents.

Spring at Little Woolgarston

Frances Hodgkins, 1946

Etching of a man falling through the air amid winged demons while onlookers in period dress raise their arms in alarm.

The persecuted butler. From Letters on demonology and witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott

George Cruikshank, 1830

Engraving of a leopard leaping from a cage toward a man in an amphitheatre while a crowd and archers watch from above.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 14. The Emperor Commodus killing a…

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Engraved costume study of figures on a road near Rome, a woman with an urn, a seated man, and a woman riding a donkey past a

Costume near Rome

Richard Bridgens, 1820

Pencil drawing of a slender sundew plant with rounded basal leaves and branching stem of small flowers on cream paper.

Drosera peltata Thunberg subsp. auriculata (Backhouse ex Planchon) Conn

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Hand-coloured 1822 botanical print of a green leafy plant with yellow flowers and buds along its stem.

Tetragonia expansa

John Curtis, 1822

Watercolor of hills, scrub and a winding road below a blue mountain range under clouds.

In Collingwood district

James Crowe Richmond, 1869

Watercolour of a garden with vines, bare trees, marble busts on pedestals, and a blue distant hillside and sea under an eveni

Garden with ruins

Walter Crane, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a glacier descending a valley between dark mountains, with a tiny figure standing on the ice.

Fox Glacier, looking up

George Sturtevant, 1896

Watercolor of a coastal road with palm trees, a blue house, hazy mountains, a bay with a sailboat, and pack animals.

Rio de Janeiro

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1878

Acanthopagrus butcheri (Tas) : Black bream

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Grey monochrome painting of a river flowing up a steep mountain valley past rocks and forested slopes under a cloudy sky.

Looking up the Karangaroa River from below junction with the Twain

George Sturtevant, 1895

Watercolor of three children playing with a wagon beside a stone wall, with village cottages behind them.

Children playing

Kate Greenaway, 1879

Watercolor of a small sailboat with crew battling rough grey waves, a three-masted ship and seabirds in the misty distance.

Marine

Pencil sketch of a two-masted boat with a standing figure on deck, drawn loosely on a cream sketchbook page.

Sketch of boat from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Pencil sketch of a muscular man bent forward, carrying another figure over his shoulder, on pale grey paper.

The rescue

Jean-Henri Fuseli

Watercolor of a domed mosque with minaret beside a lake, framed by cypress trees and pink flowering shrubs.

Lake scene

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1844

Etching of a tall Gothic church tower with pinnacles, a large arched window and a side aisle, with Latin text below.

St. Botolph's, Boston

Frederick Griggs, 1925

Etching of Venus seated under a tree watching a winged Cupid carve a bow beside her.

Venus watching Cupid carving a new bow, from Scherzi d'amore (Games of love)

Odoardo Fialetti, 1617

Watercolor of the Upukerora River flowing past forest and fallen logs toward distant snowy mountains under a pale sky.

Upukerora River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866