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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Watercolour of St Paul's Cathedral's dome and towers seen over moored boats and riverside buildings under a grey sky.

St Paul's

Charles Eastlake

Portrait of a boy

H. Linley Richardson, 1930

Red chalk drawing of women in long gowns and a standing man beneath an arched colonnade with vines.

Fantaisie Espagnole

Charles Conder, 1905

Pen and ink drawing of a seated woman with a small dog, a standing man at a table, and another man behind her in a parlour.

Ready tact - drawing for Punch

Georges du Maurier

Watercolour of a half-timbered brick manor house with gables and chimneys reflected in water, framed by a large tree.

Old Farnham Hall, Suffolk

Frederick George Reynolds

Woodcut genealogical tree with seated medieval figures and Latin captions, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.

Secunda etas mundi. Page from Liber Chronicarum (The Nuremberg Chronicle]

Michel Wolgemut, 1493

Etching of townspeople around a peddler displaying spectacles outside a wooden building, with Dutch verse below.

The five senses (sight)

Etching of a cobbled village street leading to a tall brick bell tower with arched openings, with small figures and a dog.

Afternoon, Sahagun, Spain

Muirhead Bone, 1929

Brown ink and wash drawing of two winged figures holding ornamental trumpets with scrolling decorative forms.

Two winged figures with ornamental trumpets

Francesco Salviati

Watercolor street scene of Cologne with a Gothic carved building, a tower, an ornate carriage and figures in the foreground.

Cologne

Samuel Prout, 1822

Watercolour of a crumbling circular stone ruin beside a stream at dusk, with trees and birds in the sky.

Ruins by a stream

Pen and brown ink study sheet with reclining and standing nudes, a helmeted head, a horse head, and putti.

A sheet of studies after the Antique

Marten van Heemskerck, 1532

Etching of wandering musicians, a bagpipe player and companions outside a rustic cottage with figures watching from the doorw

The wandering musicians

Adriaen van Ostade, 1654

Etching of a forest scene with a boar, hunting dogs, and a fallen man beside a large tree and rocky outcrop.

Six landscapes with the story of Adonis. Plate 5. The death of Adonis

Herman van Swanevelt, 1654

Colour print of Madonna and Child enthroned with saints and angels, and the risen Christ above before sleeping soldiers.

Madonna and Child

Watercolour of a pale river ford with a flax plant, two distant riders, and blue mountains under a cloudy sky.

Ford on the Waiau

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Hand-coloured print of a man with curly hair in a blue shawl with pink and yellow trim, captioned Native of Madagascar.

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

Hippolyte Baillière, 1842

Etching of the Nativity with the Virgin and Christ Child, an angel, cherubs, and God the Father in clouds above.

The Nativity with God the Father and angels adoring the Christ Child

Giovanni Castiglione, 1647

Etched portrait of a bald man in a suit and waistcoat, one hand in his pocket, leaning on a table.

James Craig Annan

Francis Dodd, 1910

Etching of a man in a wide hat pushing a loaded wheelbarrow past a stone wall and thatched farm building.

Man with a wheelbarrow (Le paysan rentrant du fumier)

Jean-François Millet, 1855

Etching of Roman ruins and brick buildings on a hillside, with robed figures in the foreground and trees framing the scene.

Die Römischen Ansichten (Views of Rome)/ All'acqua di S. Giorgio, in Roma

Joseph Koch, 1810

Abstract print of interlocking geometric shapes in orange, yellow, green and blue, with stylized leaf forms near the top.

Abstract design no. 2

Frank Weitzel, 1931

Monochrome reproduction of a nude woman standing as a kneeling man kisses her hand in an arched interior with a garden view.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1878

Hand-painted entomology plate IV showing numbered flies, larvae, pupae and a moth with scale bars, in watercolor.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Charcoal sketch of a young woman with curly hair, wearing a feathered hat with flowers and a lace collar.

Study( head of Edwardian woman)

Charles Nuttall

Sepia print of a laurel-crowned woman holding a lamp and branches between columns, with cherubs above and flames below, label

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Possibly Notolabrus sp (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Sheet music cover titled Paul and Virginie showing a seated couple in a tropical landscape with palms and a ship, within a se

Paul and Virginie

Watercolour of a girl in a yellow hat carrying apples in her apron, with birds flying near an apple branch and a blue vase.

Girl with apples

George Cruikshank

Engraved print of a young woman with flowers in her hair beside a draped fringed structure, with palm trees and mountains beh

A Young Woman of Otaheite Dancing

John Keyse Sherwin, 1784