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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pen and watercolour sketch of a curving cobbled street with pedestrians, a dog, a cyclist and buildings.

Street scene with figures

Raymond McIntyre, 1917

Engraved print of three winged angels, the central one holding a sphere with plants and branches, barefoot on grass.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1876

Brown ink and wash sketch of a rider in a coat on a dark horse, with a second rider in the distance.

Equestrian portrait, Mr Parry, Master of Hounds

Francis Grant, 1860

Panoramic 1841 print of Wellington harbour showing hills, a row of houses along the shore, and two ships at anchor.

City of Wellington, New Zealand, 1841

Luke Nattrass, 1841

Pencil drawing of a mountain valley with snow-capped peaks rising above a lake framed by steep hatched slopes.

Lake Coleridge from the bridle track

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Panoramic sketch of a hillside town with a grand civic building, church spire, tree-lined streets, carts and distant harbour.

Untitled (Dunedin City)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page of cats resting together on a cushion beneath loose lines of furniture.

Sketch of three cats in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor drawing of a red striped fish with fanned fins, labeled Hypoplectrodes semicinctum, Jackson's Bay, 1875.

Hypoplectrodes semicinctum

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Costume design of a woman in a yellow gown with red hearts, blue sleeves, white veil, and trailing cloak, arm outstretched.

Costume design

Pencil drawing of a river between steep cliffs, with three riders on horseback fording the water in the foreground.

Mararoa River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of a herdsman with cattle, a donkey and sheep crossing a shallow brook below a rocky cliff, with a woman wading at ri

The herd, crossing the brook

Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, 1644

Engraved portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer in an oval frame, with a lyre, scrolls and laurel on a stone pedestal below.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Watercolour of a calm lake with a small sailboat, rocky shore, forested cliffs and distant snowy mountains under pale clouds.

Te Anau Lake, N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a walled Russian-style fortress town on a river bank, with domed churches and riders on a road in front.

Russian scene

W Markham, 1800

Etching of a mosque entrance with a large pointed arch, ornate patterned walls, and figures and camels in the courtyard.

Mosque in British India

Marius Bauer, 1895

Pencil sketch with white highlights of a waterfall falling through a narrow rocky gorge, with shingle in the foreground.

Otira Gorge (Waterfall: The Devil's Punchbowl)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor drawing of the Colosseum in Rome with tiered arches, small figures on a path, and a pale blue sky.

Colosseum, Rome

Michel Vincent Brandoin

Watercolor portrait of an elderly woman in a dark headscarf and blue skirt seated beside a table with a jug and cup.

Portrait of a peasant woman

Gouache drawing of three goddesses in a chariot through clouds, with a helmeted figure and flocks of birds.

Three goddesses (allegorical study)

Watercolour of a branch with narrow green leaves and oval red berries on grey stems, signed Fanny Richardson.

Untitled [Miro?]

Fanny Richardson

Etching of a courtroom: a lawyer leans toward a seated woman holding a child, with a man at the bench behind them.

L'Avocat parlant au prévenu (The lawyer speaks to the accused)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1909

Etching of a thatched hut beside a palm tree, with rolling hills, tents and a distant mountain under cloudy skies.

La chaumière du colon vieux-soldat à Akaroa, 1845

Charles Meryon, 1866

Watercolour of a winding river between wooded hills, with pale sandbanks and white-roofed farm buildings under a cloudy sky.

Waikanae

Frank Wright, 1906

Engraved oval portrait of a woman with curled hair, pearl necklace and jeweled bodice, with inscription below.

Queen Henrietta Maria

William Faithorne the Elder, 1640

Watercolour of fisher folk on a beach with beached sailing boats, a woman with pails, and a seated fisherman mending nets.

Fisher folk

Thomas Cafe, 1816

Coloured print of islanders with clubs and spears attacking a man in surf on a shore below a mountain, with a canoe offshore.

Massacre of the Rev John Williams and Missionary Harris at Dillon's Bay , Erromango, New Hebrides 20 November 1839

George Baxter, 1841

Bust of an oriental

Jan Lievens the Elder, 1630

Charcoal sketch of dark scrubby hills and a faint distant ridgeline on a sketchbook page, numbered 37.

Sketch of hills in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Etching of a young girl with long wavy hair seated in a chair, hands clasped, looking downward.

Annie, seated

James McNeill Whistler, 1858

Watercolor of a white stork facing a brown frog beside reeds and a willow, with a windmill in the background.

Frog and bird

Alfred Crowquill, 1850