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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pencil sketch of tall forest trees, a fallen log in the foreground and a small standing figure beside it.

Hutt Road, round the first gorge, looking down

William Swainson FLS FRS, 1847

Watercolour of a calm lake with snow-capped mountains in mist, wooded shore and rocks in the foreground.

Diamond Lake, Wakatipu

Laurence William Wilson

Etching of a glowing multi-armed deity in a dim temple, with a seated woman and candles on the altar in the foreground.

The Shrine

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1922

Genypterus sp : Ling

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolour of a rocky shoreline with boulders, two small figures, distant hills and sea under a pale blue sky.

Wellington Harbour from Seatoun

William Francis Barraud, 1900

Pencil sketch of the Otira Hotel, a wooden building with a chimney, set below a steep forested mountain slope.

Otira Hotel

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraved oval portrait of a young woman with pearl-decorated curls, beneath a crown, dated 1800.

Maria Sophia Friederica

Johan Clemens, 1800

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a thatched stone farm building with trees and rolling hills behind it.

Flour mills, Glamorgan

Pencil sketch of a river landscape with wooded banks, shoreline buildings, and small sailboats and rowboats on the water.

South Spit landing, Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of a hilltop castle above a cliff, with sheep in the foreground and sunlight breaking through dark clouds.

Harlech No 1

Francis Haden, 1874

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the child beneath a tree, with a stable, cattle, a parrot and a monkey behind her.

The Virgin suckling the child outside the stable

Giulio Bonasone, 1531

Pencil sketch of a small boat on a river beside an overhanging tree and dense bush, with distant hills.

Untitled (Creek near Hokitika?)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraving of an ornate chalice with figure niches, relief scenes on the bowl, and a stepped lobed foot.

A chalice

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1640

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a long dress seen from behind, seated with hatched shading on the skirt.

Two studies of a young woman in fashionable dress: 1. Crouching, back view. 2. Seated on stool, back view

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Engraving of Apollo seated with a lyre beside a cow and dog, with classical columns and a tree trunk behind him.

Apollo tending the flocks of Admetus

Sepia print of a draped woman beside a large wheel with nude male figures chained to its rim, after Burne-Jones, 1875.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1875

Watercolor of a coastal bay with hills, surf and a sea stack, framed by trees and tree ferns in the foreground.

Sandfly Bay, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1879

Sepia engraving of a haloed boy among bearded elders in a temple interior, one seated at a desk with an open book.

Christ in the temple (Christas als Knabe im Tempel)

Etching of a wooden groyne running across sandy tidal flats, with a rowboat, walkers and a distant sailing boat.

The Groyne, Cromer

Muirhead Bone, 1939

Watercolour of a valley with a winding road, a horse-drawn wagon, a river, and a blue mountain under a pale sky.

Pomahaka valley, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Macrorhamphosus scolopax (Tas) : Snipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Colour print of dark stylised aircraft diving through a swirling blue and red sky with patterned clouds.

Air raid

Cyril Power, 1935

Charcoal sketch of jagged mountain peaks above a valley with a winding river in the foreground.

Sketch of mountain pass in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Rabindranath Tagore

Muirhead Bone, 1920

Black and white print of a farmhouse beneath wind-bent trees and streaked sky, with grass and fields in the foreground.

Wuthering Heights

John Frederic Greenwood, 1924

Woodcut of a crowned woman kneeling before an armed executioner, with a broken wheel, an angel in clouds, and a castle.

Martyrdom of St. Catherine

Albrecht Dürer, 1497

Engraving of Mary Magdalene reclining in a cave beside a skull, a cross and a wreath, with gaze turned upward.

St Mary Magdalene the Penitent lying in a cave

Claude Mellan, 1629

Watercolour of a curving path along a dark river in autumn, with willows and orange-leaved trees under a grey sky.

Riverside, autumn

Margaret Stoddart, 1930

Lithograph of Dunedin's houses, fenced fields and harbour with sailing ships beneath hills, 1849.

View of Part of Dunedin, and upper harbour, from Stafford Street

Charles Henry Kettle, 1849

Engraving of a smiling curly-haired child holding a cat, with a Dutch verse caption below.

A child with a cat

Cornelis Bloemaert