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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Watercolor and ink drawing of a rocky stream beneath bare trees with warm autumn tones.

Autumn stream

Frederick Porter

Sepia engraved portrait of a young woman in a large bonnet with a striped ribbon bow and fur collar, titled Winter.

Winter

Francesco Bartolozzi

Watercolour of a woman in a white bonnet holding a hoe in a cabbage field, with a village in the distance.

Cabbage field

Henry Green, 1888

Etching of fishing boats with masts on calm water, figures working in the foreground, and a distant shoreline.

Port Manech

Martin Hardie, 1928

Watercolour still life of broken pottery shards, a painted bowl, purple flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Broken pottery

Frances Hodgkins, 1939

Pencil and watercolor botanical study of Colobanthus acicularis with flower buds, tufted leaves and a top-view floral detail.

Colobanthus acicularis Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of two Arab men in robes resting on a hillside, with a rifle on the ground and riders in the distance.

Eaux-Fortes Modernes. Plate 197. Arabes d'Oran (Arabs of Oran)

Eugène Delacroix, 1833

Pencil sketch of tall trees and shrubs along a dirt road, with a small figure walking in the distance.

Manuka Grove on Taine's Section, Upper Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1848

Woman's head framed in roundel

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643

Watercolor of a sunlit French street with market stalls, a spired tower, and figures with a donkey.

Evereux, France

William Callow, 1855

Engraving of Saint Jerome reading on a rock beside a lion, hourglass and skull, under gnarled trees and a distant landscape.

St Jerome reading in the desert

Cornelis Cort, 1565

Sepia sketch of a harbour with hills, small boats on the water, and a figure raising an arm on the shoreline.

Porirua Harbour, showing present site of Plimmerton

Pencil portrait of an elderly man in a cap smoking a long pipe in an armchair beside a cluttered desk.

Ditlev Gothard Monrad

Pietro Krohn, 1865

Mezzotint portrait of a seated bald man in a dark coat holding a paper and spectacles, with a draped curtain behind him.

William H. Wollaston MD VPRS

William Ward, 1824

Engraving of an artist painting a nude woman at an easel, with a cupid, a cat, scientific instruments and distant ships.

Artist painting a nude woman: allegory of visual perception

Jan Saenredam, 1598

Watercolour of a lake with a sailing boat, tawny hills, mountains and walkers on a ridge in the foreground.

A South Island scene

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1871

Watercolour of a sunset over a calm bay with rocky islands, a steep gorge, dead trees and small boats.

Sunset on the Kikowhakarere Gorges, at Coromandel

Alfred Sharpe, 1881

Engraved landscape of a wide plain with distant hills, with hunters and dogs chasing a pig through grass in the foreground.

Plain of the Ruamahanga opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington

Samuel Brees, 1843

Etching of a walled fort with a round tower and small figures gathered on barren ground under a pale sky.

The Turkish Fort, Cairo

David Young Cameron, 1909

Pen line drawing of a bird's tail with layered feathers and long central shafts, labelled with the number 1 and handwritten n

Tail of skua Stercorarius sp

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor scientific illustration of a sand eel with close-up views of its protruded mouth and underside.

Gonorynchus fosteri (NZ) : Sand fish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Etching of a kneeling figure with keys beside a treasure chest in a dim vaulted hall with stone columns.

Treasure trove

Marius Bauer, 1902

Watercolour of rose-lit alpine peaks above a misty blue valley, with a large tree and rocks in the foreground.

Untitled (A view of the Alps)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1884

Etching of a steam tug and river traffic on a harbour, with a city skyline and smoke under a cloudy sky.

Limehouse

Charles Henry Baskett, 1920

Hand painted plate of numbered New Zealand beetles and larvae in colour, with scale bars, arranged on a cream page.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate II]

George Hudson, 1934

Watercolor of two horses in a stable with a dog lying in straw beside a bright window.

Horses

George Morland, 1794

Etching of the Lion of Saint Mark column on a Venetian waterfront, with an arcaded palace facade and gondolas in the foregrou

The Lion of St. Mark, Venice

Walter Sickert, 1915

Hand painted entomology plate showing twelve numbered moths and caterpillars with scale bars, labelled Plate IV.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate IV]

George Hudson, 1946

Watercolour landscape of tall trees on a sandy bank above a path, with hazy hills and misty treelines in the distance.

Untitled landscape

Watercolor of a sleeping mermaid on a sandy beach with breaking waves and a rocky headland behind her.

The sleeping mermaid

John Weguelin, 1911