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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Pencil drawing of Akaroa Bay with a coastal village, rolling hills, moored sailing ships and grasses in the foreground.

Akaroa Bay, Banks Peninsula

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketchbook page with handwritten place names and the date 23 January 1891, plus smudged graphite shapes and a stool sk

Inside cover of An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Hand-colored engraving of figures around a fire beside a timber hut and tree trunk, with a standing man holding a spear.

Abitazioni

Andrea Bernieri

Watercolour sketch of a park with bare trees, people seated on benches and a woman pushing a black pram.

Watercolour sketch of women in a park

Gertrud Kauders, 1920

Etching of a marsh pond with reeds, a grazing horse and a bird, with factory chimneys silhouetted on the horizon.

L'Étang de la Bièvre (Beaver pond)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1872

Hand-coloured print of the launch of the ship The John Wesley at West Cowes, with a crowd watching from the quay.

The launch of the missionary ship The John Wesley. At West Cowes. Isle of Wight, Sept 23rd. 1846

Ebenezer Landells, 1846

Charcoal sketch of a kneeling figure by a campfire and tent, with a standing figure and tall trees in a forest clearing.

Sketch of figure kneeling in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolour of a canal with a stone bridge, a tall church tower, brick warehouses and a moored sailing ship with rigging.

The Boston stump

Colored drawing of a huntsman in red coat on a galloping chestnut horse with a hound running beside him.

Huntsman

Samuel Alken Senior, 1789

Pencil sketch of a horse grazing on a sloping hillside, with a tree branch and rough ground lines around it.

Pencil sketch of horses grazing in A Wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Chromolithograph of a spotted trout on a riverbank, with a canoe on a calm river and a forest behind, dated 1880.

Untitled - Samuel Kilbourne, 1880

Samuel Kilbourne, 1880

Color woodcut of a potted plant with green leaves and red berries against angular geometric shapes in blue, cream and maroon.

The pot plant

Dorrit Black, 1933

Engraving of lynxes attacking deer in a bare winter forest beside a stream, with Latin verse below the image.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 30. Deer attacked by lynxes

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Engraving of Satan descending before God, with Job seated on a bench, his wife, angels, and a dog in a landscape.

Then went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord. From: The Book of Job

William Blake, 1825

Loose charcoal sketch of a hooded seated figure beside dark hatched shading and vertical strokes on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of figure in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved print of Easter Island ruins with toppled stone statues, a skeleton on a platform, and a figure with a spear by the

Monuments in Easter Island

William Woollett, 1777

Engraving of a wooded landscape with a horseman on a grassy bank, a small bridge over a stream, and a distant farmhouse.

Landscape with horseman. From: Small landscapes

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, 1638

Pencil and chalk sketch on tan paper of a curly-haired man in a dark coat, turned toward the viewer.

Mr Nasmyth

John Linnell the Elder

Watercolour of a decorated barge with canopy and passengers on a river before a city with domes and minarets.

Benares

Nicholas Chevalier, 1870

Ink sketch of a couple with a parasol and dog beside two top-hatted men pointing with walking sticks.

Satirical drawing

William Thackeray

Watercolour plate of numbered moths, nymphs and a caterpillar, each with a scale bar, on a cream mount.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Pencil sketch of a mountain valley with snowy peaks, a river, a pack horse and two travelers, and a rocky cliff at right.

Lindis Pass

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Lithograph of a woman in a tiered ruffled dress standing in a doorway, framed by dark floral patterned panels.

Madame Figaro

Ethel Gabain, 1917

Black and white wood engraving of a flower bouquet in a footed pitcher beside open books, by Paul Nash, 1927.

Bouquet

Paul Nash, 1927

Hand-colored print of a young boy in a fur robe, red sash and bead necklace, titled Hee-doh-gee-ats, a Chin-ook Boy, 1842.

Hee-doh-gee-ats: a Chin-ook boy From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

John Harris, 1842

Etching of a hilltop fort above rocky cliffs, with a town spread across the plain on the right.

Jodhpur

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1927

Etching of a Gothic church with thatched cottages, a horse and cart on a dirt road, and birds in the sky.

Lone-End

Frederick Griggs, 1930

Black and white engraving of a nude Venus figure with billowing cloth among sea nymphs, waves, seagulls and fish.

Hymn to Proserpine:Venus

John Buckland-Wright, 1943

Printed page with a circular woodcut of the Madonna knitting with the Christ Child and an angel, above a poem.

The song of the dressmaker. The Madonna and Child with an angel: Madonna knitting

Eric Gill, 1916

Engraving of Christ crowned with thorns shown to a crowd below, with a man carrying a cross and a city skyline behind.

Ecce homo, plate 8 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597