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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Brown wash drawing of a river with herons, a castle and arched bridge on a hill, and mountains beyond.

Lake and bridge

Richard Henry Hilditch

Watercolor landscape of a riverbank with trees, a small house with red roof, and a cloudy sky.

A squall on the Meon

Charles Holmes, 1933

Etching of a Gothic cathedral nave with pointed arches, columns and a bright choir screen at the far end.

Cathedral

Frederick Farrell, 1905

Sepia watercolor of a shepherd with sheep and a donkey on a road, a stone tower, an aqueduct and mountains beyond.

Italian scene

Andrew Wilson, 1807

Watercolor drawing of a greenbone wrasse fish in side view with pink fins and handwritten fin counts.

Unknown (Tas)

Frank Edward Clarke

Pencil sketch on a sketchbook page of a standing woman with raised arm and several seated figures in headscarves.

Sketch of a group of male and female figures . From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Grey-toned botanical drawing of a branching plant with lobed leaves and small umbel flowers, labelled Apium prostratum.

Apium prostratum Labillardiere var. prostratum

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of masted boats moored at a busy waterfront with workers carrying planks and loads under a pale sky.

Boats and coolies. From: Fourth Indian plates

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1927

Botanical drawing of a Dianella plant with long narrow leaves, roots, a branched flowering stem and detail studies of flower

Dianella nigra Colenso

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Engraving of a bishop with mitre and crozier consecrating a kneeling man as an angel descends with a crown above.

Consecration of St. Nicholas

Richard Golding

Black and white woodcut of a cottage, cypress trees and a stone wall, with two figures walking on a path.

Landscape with two figures

Raymond McIntyre, 1917

Grey wash drawing of misty mountains above a harbour with several masted boats at anchor on calm water.

Port Chalmers

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Watercolor landscape of a stone arch bridge over a river, framed by trees, with a mountain rising behind.

Landscape with bridge

William Muller, 1841

Etching of wind-bent trees, a waterfront promenade and moored boats under a dark stormy sky, with a large building at left.

Windy night, Stockholm

Muirhead Bone, 1935

Watercolor landscape of cattle grazing on a hillside above a hazy plain with distant mountains, signed John Gully 1881.

Landscape [Waimea Plains, Nelson?]

John Gully, 1881

Circular green lithograph of a reclining nude woodnymph among dense leaves and branches, signed by Charles Shannon.

The woodnymph

Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1907

Sepia wash drawing of a lake with jagged mountain peaks and rocky shoreline in the foreground.

Lake Manapouri

John Gully, 1887

Head of a girl

Engraved print of armored winged angels with banners descending stairs toward a gothic gate, framed by Latin text.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1894

Etching of a wooded landscape with gnarled trees, a grassy bank, a waterway, and a distant church tower under a cloudy sky.

At Scoulton

John Crome, 1812

Engraving of three seated women spinning thread, labelled Lachesis, Clotho and Atropos, with a wooden spinning wheel.

The three Fates

Giorgio Ghisi, 1558

Engraving of a bearded barefoot saint in a cloak leaning on a staff inside a stone niche.

St James Major. Plate 6. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Engraving of Christ standing before a seated ruler on a throne, with soldiers and a crowd, under an arch with a city view.

Christ before Pilate, plate 5 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Brown etching of a tall church bell tower with clock and domed church, figures and barrels in a town square.

Church tower

Francis Unwin, 1911

Watercolour of pale pink and blue silica terraces stepping down to a lake, with a small boat and misty mountains beyond.

The Pink Terraces

John Hoyte, 1875

Watercolour of a stone cottage with slate roof, a woman and child outside, hens on a path, and mountains behind.

Stone cottage

Frederick Boisseree, 1870

Himantolophus appelii (NZ) - lateral view : Prickly anglerfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Colour print of three fish on white cloth with a red pot behind them, against a brown background.

Fish

George Taylor Nicholson, 1930

Etching of rolling hills under a cloudy sky, with rain falling from a dark cloud over distant downland and shrubs.

Nine Barrow Down, Isle of Purbeck looking towards St. Albans Head

John Robinson, 1872

Etched print of a gondolier poling a gondola on a misty canal beneath trees, with a second boat in the distance.

The gondolier

Sydney Mackenzie Litten, 1928