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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pencil sketch on a cream sketchbook page, page 31, with loose gestural lines forming a rounded shape and angular strokes.

Sketch from A Wellington Sketchbook c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Watercolor of a riverside town with a church tower, stone houses, a tall tree and misty mountains behind.

Eisteddfod opens at Llangollen

Pencil sketch of an elderly man raising a cleaver overhead, wearing a striped shirt, with a small study of a seated figure.

Two studies of an elderly man: 1. Standing with cleaver in hand. 2. Seated on high stool, wearing waistcoat

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Etching of a stone arch over a busy Naples street with a horse-drawn carriage and pedestrians.

Arco San Carlo, Naples

William Walcot, 1921

Pencil sketch of two men in a small dinghy on water, drawn on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of men in dinghy in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Loose watercolor of dark trees, a red hillside, a white building and a winding road under a pastel sky.

Road to the hills, Ibiza

Frances Hodgkins, 1933

Pencil sketch of a man in period dress with both arms raised high, holding a long walking stick, signed Phil May 1892.

Sketch - Philipp William May, 1892

Philipp William May, 1892

Painting of stormy sea waves crashing against grey cliffs, with seagulls flying over a headland under an overcast sky.

Mogshold head, Isle of Man

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Etching of a shepherdess with a staff among cattle, goats and sheep, with a bay, boats and a town in the distance.

Pastoral landscapes: A shepherdess spinning

Jan de Visscher, 1660

Pale watercolor botanical study of a pink flower and clustered leaves, with a handwritten species label at the bottom.

Heliophyllum rubrum Hook.f. (now known as Phyllachne rubra (Hook.f.) Cheesem.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor of a river gorge with steep cliffs, green trees and distant mountains under a hazy sky.

The River Von, near Lake Wakatipu

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a flooded plain with grass tufts, pointed mountains behind, small buildings and distant riders at right.

The Mataura flooded and the Pyramids

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of an elderly woman in a light blouse and apron standing beside a curtain in a dark doorway.

Doorkeeper

Francis Dodd, 1907

Watercolor drawing of a sand mullet fish in side view with fin-ray counts and handwritten caption on pale paper.

Myxus elongatus (Tas) : Sand mullet

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Watercolor miniature of a woman in a blue dress and lace headdress holding a fan beside an ornate mirror.

Portrait miniature (Woman with a fan)

Pencil and watercolor botanical drawing of a single bell-shaped flower above clustered stems, with a handwritten plant name l

Heliophyllum clavigerum Hook.f. (now known as Phyllachne clavigera (Hook.f.) F.Muell.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Grey wash drawing of a calm bay with rocky foreground, wooded headland, distant buildings and a mountain under stormy clouds.

Salerno

Thomas Girtin, 1794

Watercolour of a hilltop village with tall cypress trees, a blue tree, red plants and a stone archway.

Hill with cypresses

Frances Hodgkins, 1930

Etching of the Thames with Westminster towers, an obelisk, bare trees and boats under a misty sky.

Westminster from a Savoy window

C. R. W. Nevinson, 1925

Watercolor of two sailing boats with pink sails near a rocky shore, with a distant rowing boat and grey hills.

Boats

George Morland, 1794

Watercolor of Bolsover Castle on a hill above village rooftops, with figures on a road and a flat plain beyond.

Bolsover Castle

Charles Radclyffe

Watercolor panorama of a village with a square church tower, low rooftops, fields, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Under the Mendips

Grey botanical illustration of a branching shrub with narrow leaves and small flower clusters on cream paper.

Pimelea tomentosa (Forster & G. Forster) Druce

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Sketch of Emmy and Sigmund Kauders

Gertrud Kauders, 1919

Etching of a wooded countryside with tall trees framing rolling hills, a small distant house, and grazing cattle.

Wooded countryside (Campagne boisée)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1866

Chromolithograph of cultivated plains, a lake, and snowy mountains seen from forested hills under a hazy sky.

Waimea Plains and cultivated country near Nelson

Watercolor drawing of a striped trevally fish in side view with handwritten specimen notes below.

Latridopsis forsteri (Tas) : Copper moki

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolor portrait of a seated woman in a patterned shawl and headscarf against blue and violet washes.

Breton Peasant

Frances Hodgkins, 1909

Engraved botanical print of a branch with narrow leaves and clusters of small flower buds in grey tones.

Alepis flavida (Hooker f.) Tieghem

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil and wash sketch of a mountain gorge with forest, a snowy peak, a river and rocks, annotated with colour notes.

Otira Gorge

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866