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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pencil sketch of Queenstown's wooden buildings along Lake Wakatipu, with sailing boats and mountains rising behind the lake.

Queenstown on the Lake Wakatipu

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor sketch of two women in traditional dress in a doorway, one standing with a red neckerchief, one seated.

Study of two women in a doorway. From: An 1876 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1876

Grey wash drawing of a grassy pasture with grazing cows, tall trees, and rolling hills under a pale sky.

Poerua Estate, Westland

George Sturtevant, 1896

Engraving of a standing allegorical woman with a staff, a column, a bird on a cartouche, and a Latin inscription below.

Chastity. From: The Virtues

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Mullet

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Pen and wash drawing of two bearded monks with rosary beads standing in a garden with trees and two figures behind.

Monks in a garden

Arthur Pond, 1732

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Facing forwrds, across back of chair. 2. Lying face down on chair

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch of kiekie climbing a tree with wharawhara plants and vines, labelled in handwriting, 1868.

Kiekie and Wharawhara at Westoe

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Pencil drawing of a farmhouse on a hill with a rider, wooden fences, palm trees and rolling hills beyond.

Mr Bank's farm

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of a kneeling woman milking a goat with sheep and a standing woman holding a jug beside a stone wall.

Young woman milking a goat

Francesco Londonio, 1763

Etching of a low tide harbor with a stone quay, wooden pilings, a small sailing boat, and masted ships in the distance.

Low Tide and the Evening Star and Rye’s Long Pier Deserted

Frank Short, 1888

Etched landscape of a river framed by trees, with distant hills, cloudy sky and two small figures on the bank.

The Hon. Sidney Herbert's 'Moonlight'

David Read, 1845

Etching of a grotesque laughing man towering over a cloaked woman, with distorted faces floating around him.

Bobalicón (Simpleton). Plate 4 from: Disparates (Follies)

Francisco Goya, 1814

Woodblock print of three junks moored at dusk in a bay, with a crescent moon, hillside and a rowboat on the water.

Junks in Inatori Bay, Izu

Takahashi Shōtei, 1926

Engraving of Venus scolding a winged Cupid lying on a bed, with attendant figures and a draped curtain in a classical interio

Venus chastising Cupid. Plate 17 from: The story of Cupid and Psyche

Master of the Die, 1530

Etching of tall trees beside a hill with distant buildings and a small figure under a soft cloudy sky.

Remembrance of Italy (Souvenir d'Italie)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Pencil sketch of snowy mountain peaks above a diagonal line of conifers, with handwritten labels for Scesaplana, June 1874.

Summits of Scesaplana

James Crowe Richmond, 1874

Etching of a woodland road with large trees, a shepherd and sheep beside a wooden fence, and distant hills.

Road scene, Hethersett

John Crome, 1812

Watercolor of figures in regional dress standing before carved saint statues in a Gothic cathedral interior.

Figures, cathedral interior

Pencil sketch of a young man in a tricorn hat and period coat, holding a cane and pointing, with a boot study at right.

Young Dutch gentleman

Petrus van der Velden

Ink and wash drawing of a man with curly hair in a cravat and ornate ceremonial robe, turned to the left.

Richard Colley Wellesley

Thomas Heaphy, 1815

Japanese woodblock print of two dancing men and a woman in green kimono playing samisen beside a candle stand.

Men dancing to samisen music, from the series Shokoku meibutsu (Famous products of the provinces)

Totoya Hokkei, 1890

Etching of a man on a pedestal reading from a paper before a crowd, with a tree and ruined building behind.

The five senses (sound)

Etching of a weathered thatched barn and wooden sheds in a farmyard, with a tree on the right and misty trees beyond.

Ambleside farmyard

Hand-coloured print of a man from Mozambique with blue facial markings and gold hoop earrings, from Prichard's Natural Histor

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

J Bull, 1842

Botanical watercolour of a New Zealand plant with white flower heads, roots, and a detached leaf, labelled Braya novae-zeland

Braya novae-zelandiae Hook.f. (now known as Pachycladon novae-zelandiae (Hook.f.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolour of a river between wooded hills, with five small figures wading across the current under a cloudy sky.

On the Buller River, Near Lake Arthur, Rotoiti

William Fox KCMG

Watercolour branch with red berries, pale fluffy flowers and reddish and green leaves, signed by Fanny Richardson.

Untitled [Coprosma male and female]

Fanny Richardson

Panoramic pencil sketch of a braided river valley with snow-capped mountain ranges in the background.

Waimakariri River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of a flowering Myrsine salicina branch with long green leaves and small pink flower clusters on a cream backgroun

Toro [Myrsine salicina]

Fanny Richardson