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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pencil sketch of a river with wooded hills, rowing boats, sailboats and a row of buildings along the shore.

On the River Grey

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Brown wash drawing of the Holy Family with a donkey, an angel and a tree in the background.

The Flight into Egypt

Domenico Maria Canuti

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a woman leaning toward a seated man in a stone-walled room, with a figure at a fireplace be

She stoops to conquer

Robert Cruikshank, 1820

Painting of the ocean liner Aorangi with red funnels in a harbour, surrounded by sailing boats, a tug and a city waterfront.

Aorangi

Charles Dixon, 1924

Sepia lithograph of Porirua Harbour with a rider on a path, a wooden fence, small boats and a shore settlement.

Porirua Harbour and Paramatta whaling station in Nov 1843

Samuel Brees, 1843

Farmer leading a white horse pulling a harrow across a brown hillside under grey clouds, with mountains behind.

The harrow

Hans Frank, 1900

Lithograph of snow-capped mountains above a forest and grazing cattle in a valley, with a rocky stream in front.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate V. Te Anau

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Pencil sketch of a vertical line on a sketchbook page with handwritten notes naming Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Venus of Milo.

Page in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Engraving of a young man lifting a stone beside classical ruins as a veiled woman and child point toward him.

Teseo che trova i segni della sua origine

Lithograph of a blacksmith shoeing a grey horse in a stable while a dark horse stands in a sunlit doorway.

Le maréchal anglais (The English blacksmith). From 'Études de chevaux, Grands chevaux' (Studies of horses. Large horses'

Jean Géricault, 1822

Sepia reproduction of a standing woman in a flowing gown before a curtain of fruit branches and flowers.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1870

Etching of a seated man in a jacket and bow tie, hands folded, looking toward the viewer against a pale background.

W.H. Hutton

Joseph Simpson, 1927

Etched portrait of an older bearded man in a fur-trimmed robe and ruff collar, seated beside books within an oval frame.

Johannes Wtenbogaert, preacher of the Remonstrants

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635

Watercolor and ink drawing of a brown sand flounder seen from above, with handwritten fin counts and a catch note.

Rhombosolea plebeia (NZ) : Sand flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1873

Watercolor of a Gothic stone gatehouse with twin towers and a ruined arched wall, with two figures in the foreground.

Entrance to Monastary of St. Augustine, Canterbury

Etching of a three-masted sailing ship on rough sea with a distant vessel and sketched clouds above.

Up channel

Arthur Briscoe, 1925

Watercolour of native orchids with white, pink and purple star flowers and striped green hooded buds on narrow leaves.

Thelymitra pterostylis

Fanny Richardson, 1921

Pencil sketch of two studies of a woman in fashionable dress, one with a hat, on aged paper.

Two studies of a woman in fashionable dress, three-quarters view, one with hat and coat, the other without

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pen drawing of riverside buildings, a lattice bridge and a church tower over reflective water.

The Little Putney, No. 1

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Watercolor of a girl in a blue bonnet reaching toward a grey heron by water, with yellow flowers and pink blossoms.

Girl feeding bird

George Cruikshank

Watercolour of a lake framed by native bush, with snow-capped mountains rising under a pale golden sky.

Mount Cook

John Gully, 1872

Engraving of a bearded elderly saint in flowing robes holding a saw-blade, standing barefoot on a mound, dated 1523.

St Simon

Albrecht Dürer, 1523

Pencil sketch of a sailing craft with mast, sail and rigging, and a small seated figure in the boat, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of a sailing craft. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Watercolor of a misty lake with snowy mountains, sailboats, a jetty and cabbage trees on the shore.

Lake Wakatipu

John Gully, 1881

Mustelus antarcticus (NZ) : Smooth-hound (shark)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Small etched plate with chains, wine glasses and French verse around a pump house, mounted on cream paper.

The Notre-Dame Pump (small plate)

Charles Meryon, 1854

Watercolor of crumbling stone ruins with a large arch, a staircase, overgrown shrubs and small figures under a cloudy sky.

Ruins

James Baynes, 1797

Loose pencil sketch of two figures and a bundle on a sketchbook page, with the left side of the page blank.

Pencil sketch of figures in A Wellington sketchbook, c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Back view of a peasant woman in a headcloth leaning on a half-door, looking out through a bright window in a brown-toned inte

'Ectypa' of Ploos van Amstel: A peasant woman, seen from behind and leaning on the lower half of the door

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, 1761

Charcoal sketch of a waterfall over rocks in a river, drawn on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of waterfall over rocks in river. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891