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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pentaceropsis recurvirostris (Tas) : Long-snout boarfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Grey-toned botanical print of a branching Haloragis plant with serrated leaves, flower buds, and small floral dissections.

Haloragis erecta (Banks ex Murray) Oken

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Engraved print of sailing boats in rough sea before a town shoreline with flagpoles under a stormy sky.

Deal

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Lithograph portrait of an elderly white-haired man seated in an armchair beside a table with a book, with a window view behin

Portrait of Reverend William Kirby, President of Ipswich Museum

Grey wash botanical drawing of a leafy Coprosma branch with narrow oval leaves on a cream sheet.

Coprosma propinqua Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolour of several masted sailing ships in a harbour with a church spire and town skyline in the distance.

Ships in harbour

Watercolor and ink drawing of a large seated woman holding a child, rendered in red, brown and blue washes.

Untitled [Mother and child]

Frances Hodgkins, 1924

Pencil sketch of a stone church with a domed bell tower on a hillside, with mountains and sea behind it.

Untitled (Santa Maria de la Neus)

Frances Hodgkins, 1935

Engraving of a bearded saint holding a book beside a ruined classical building with arched niches and columns.

St Judas Thaddeus. Plate 2. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Pencil sketch on tan sketchbook page showing a loosely drawn figure with hatched shading, numbered 45.

Sketch of a figure in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraving of ships and small boats in rough seas at a harbour entrance, with a tower on a headland under stormy clouds.

Catwater, Entrance to Plymouth Sound

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Black-and-white print of a winding lane past a stone farmhouse, with dry stone walls, slender trees and fields.

Cove Lane

John Frederic Greenwood, 1926

Engraved botanical print of a Solanum aviculare branch with lobed leaves, small flowers, buds and fruit.

Solanum aviculare G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Woodblock print of travelers on a road crossing a wooden bridge over a river, with trees and rice fields beyond.

Tōkaidō gojo santsugi. Yokkaichi. Plate No 44. From the series: Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō Road

Utagawa Hiroshige

Pen and grey wash drawing of cows resting by a stream beneath tall trees, with hills and a farmhouse in the distance.

Near Dunedin (stream, trees, cows)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolour of a spotted pufferfish with blue-dotted dark back, pale belly and pink fins, labelled Gillbanks' Globe Fish.

Arothron gillbanksii (Gillbanks Globe fish)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Sketchbook page with loose charcoal studies of two figures, one seated and one standing near a diagonal line, numbered 70.

Sketches of figure near water in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolor of a mountain village with timber chalets, pine trees, snowy peaks, and riders on a dirt path.

A party on horseback in a mountainous landscape

Constance Gordon-Cumming, 1877

Botanical drawing of a white daisy flower with yellow centre on a tall stem above a rosette of silver leaves and roots.

Celmisia hectorii Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Engraved bust portrait of a bearded man in a white turban and fur-collared coat, labelled Potatow.

Potatow

John Hall, 1777

Pencil sketch of mountain peaks and hills on a tan sketchbook page, drawn in 1893.

Sketch of hills/ mountain in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Sketch of a small settlement of wooden buildings in a clearing, with dense forest behind and figures working in the foregroun

Town of Halcombe

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Etching of the ruined Tantallon Castle walls and towers on a headland, with distant sailboats on the sea.

Tantallon Castle

David Young Cameron, 1932

Pen sketch of tall trees and a small cottage beside a fence along a bush track, drawn in brown ink.

On the Blue Skin Road near Dunedin

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolor of wooden lock gates, a thatched cottage and two figures by water under misty trees and hills.

Lockgates and cottage

Charcoal sketch of angular rocks and a dark ridge on a sketchbook page numbered 74.

Sketch of rock formation from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Hand painted entomology plate showing eleven numbered cicadas and a nymph in green, red, brown and black tones.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Watercolor of tents and figures on a hillside with a fortified hilltop pa in misty blue hills.

Ngatapa, Te Kooti's Pa

James Crowe Richmond, 1868

Watercolour of a tiled wooden lychgate beneath dark trees, with two children on a gravel path before a fence.

Porch, Peckenham Church, Kent

James Holland, 1830

Grey wash landscape with a winding river, arched bridge, cattle grazing, and two figures under a large tree.

Landscape with cattle