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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Etching of a canal street in Leyden with a domed church, moored boats, gabled houses, and pedestrians.

Leyden

Muirhead Bone, 1914

Pencil sketch of two standing men in an interior, one in a cap and tunic, one in a turban, with a reclining figure beside the

Figure studies. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Etching of a dark city skyline with towers beside a curved pier and a small sailing boat on still water.

Little Calais Pier

Francis Haden, 1865

Closed grey cloth sketchbook with red handwritten label reading Sketchbook F J Porter France on a white background.

Sketchbook: F J Porter, France

Frederick Porter

Engraving of a seated woman with a nude infant, a reclining man holding flowers, and a child at the right edge.

The Holy Family with St John the Baptist

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1530

Watercolour of an Oxford college street with Gothic buildings, a church spire, a dome, and figures in academic gowns.

Oriel College, Oxford

Watercolor drawing of a yellow leather jacket fish with a dorsal spine and dark spots, labeled Monacanthus peronii, 1873.

Pseudomonacanthus peroni

Frank Edward Clarke, 1873

Etching of a snowy Paris street with carriages, pedestrians, dogs and a kiosk, with small winter vignettes along the edges.

L'Hiver à Paris; La Neige à Paris (The winter of 1879 in Paris)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879

Watercolor of a minaret above a whitewashed wall, a figure in a doorway, and a blue-roofed building under a pale sky.

Mosque at Tlemcen

James Crowe Richmond, 1875

Etching of an old bearded man with a pipe and a laughing boy in a cap leaning on his shoulder.

Youth and age

Job Nixon, 1911

Watercolor of a stag with large antlers standing in a woodland pond beside a big tree.

Stag

Black and white woodcut of a seated woman with bangles, surrounded by birds, flowers and flowing water lines.

Black Venus

John Archibald Austen

Engraving of a robed man writing at a column beside an eagle, with stone blocks and a landscape behind him.

St John the Evangelist. Plate 9. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Charcoal sketch of a horse and wagon crossing hills, with the label Porters Pass written at upper right.

Horse and wagon from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Monochrome print of a kneeling woman in a dark robe reaching toward a window onto a stormy sea, beside an open book.

Dorigen of Bretagne. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Hand-coloured engraving of two Australian Aboriginal figures, a seated man in yellow and a standing boy in blue, beside rock

Patêt. Australians of King George's Sound. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

J Bull, 1842

Engraving of elegant figures in a garden beneath a tree, with a stone bust, a harlequin figure, and text below.

Voulez-vous triompher des belles?... From 'L'Oeuvre d'Antoine Watteau Peintre du Roy Recueil Jullienne'

Henri Thomassin, 1725

Ink drawing of two tall women in large feathered hats beside a small child in a tartan kilt and bonnet.

Two ladies

Philipp William May

Watercolor of horned cattle walking a dirt path through a field, with a farmhand and trees in the hazy background.

Cows in landscape

Henry Birtles, 1901

Etching of a standing woman in a dark dress and bonnet framed in a doorway, with a bare tree in the garden beyond.

The garden door

Francis Dodd, 1909

Etched portrait of a man in a dark beret and fur-trimmed robe, leaning on a stone ledge and gazing at the viewer.

Self portrait by Rembrandt

Roland Hipkins, 1922

Pencil sketch page from a sketchbook showing door knobs, a curved plate outline, and a handwritten word across the centre.

Diagrammatic sketches of door elements. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Etching of a lakeside scene with leafy trees, a leaning trunk on the right, grazing cows in the water and a small seated figu

Le lac (The lake)

Félix Bracquemond, 1861

Lithograph of a farmer in cap and overalls leaning on a shovel by fence posts, with fields and a farmstead behind him.

In the spring

Grant Wood, 1939

Watercolor of a forest encampment with seated figures, animals and a fashionable couple walking on a path at right.

Gipsy encampment

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

Engraving of a crowded 18th-century room with a harpsichord player, fashionably dressed men and a kneeling servant.

A rake's progress. Plate 2. The Levée

William Hogarth, 1735

Etching of a reclining young child looking over the shoulder toward the viewer, with a sketched hilly landscape behind.

Bibi Valentin

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Watercolor portrait of a young girl with flaxen hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue high-necked dress.

The girl with flaxen hair

Frances Hodgkins, 1893

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a robe and tall cap holding a pipe, with hatched shading on the garment.

Two studies of a Moroccan soldier: 1. Seated, with pipe in hand. 2. Standing, with hands in waistcoat

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolor scientific illustration of a blue mackerel fish in side view with labeled fin counts above and caption below.

Scomber australasicus (Tas) : Blue mackerel

Frank Edward Clarke, 1869