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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Watercolor of a dirt path through heathland with resting sheep, pine trees, and rolling hills under a cloudy sky.

Ewhurst Hill, Surrey

Watercolor still life of two decorative plates, a blue draped cloth, a jug and a brown bowl on a pink table.

Two plates

Frances Hodgkins, 1931

Black and white print of bare trees in front of a brick wall and a large house with chimneys, Hampstead, 1919.

Hampstead

Francis Unwin, 1919

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a thatched hut with whale-rib frame on a shore, a small boat, and a steep hillside.

Hut of whale's ribs on Brown's Island, Kapiti

George Frederick Swainson, 1850

Grey wash drawing of a woody landscape with a cottage, a pond, a cloaked figure and a small boat on tan paper.

Woody landscape with horseman near a pond by a cottage

Thomas Gainsborough

Etching of a ruined castle on a dark rocky islet between calm water and distant hills under a pale sky.

Killundine Castle, Sound of Mull, Argyll

David Young Cameron, 1929

Triptych Japanese woodblock print of people playing koto, shamisen and flute before a plum blossom screen.

Haru no yoru no on-asobi (Music on a spring evening)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1847

Pencil sketch of gabled rooftops and chimneys under a cloudy sky, with a grassy hillside in the foreground.

Duppa St, Wellington

Petrus van der Velden, 1909

Black and red woodcut-style print of St George on horseback spearing a dragon within a circular yellow and black border.

St George and the dragon

Eric Gill, 1917

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Christ between two thieves, mourners and a mounted soldier, inside an ornate architectural fr

Crucifixion

Philips Galle, 1574

Watercolor botanical study of a slender orchid stem with green flowers, narrow leaves and a pale tuber at the base.

Untitled [Othoceras]

Fanny Richardson, 1921

Woodblock print of two white egrets wading in water under a crescent moon, with reeds against a blue night sky.

Pair of white egrets

Ohara Koson, 1930

Sepia etching of an elderly Breton woman in a white bonnet and dark shawl, head bowed, by Charles Cottet.

A Breton peasant woman

Charles Cottet, 1922

Color print of gulls flying over a rock in churning teal sea with white surf.

Gulls

Eva Auld Watson, 1930

Monochrome print of a knight, a woman playing an organ, and a winged angel in a garden before a medieval town.

Le Chant D'Amour. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1868

Etching of a palace courtyard with a fountain, veiled women, a tall tree, and domed roofs behind a patterned wall.

Bachi-Serai

Marius Bauer, 1902

Black and white lithograph of a river valley with farm buildings, a riverboat, and a snow-capped mountain on the horizon.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate I. Whanganui River

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Watercolour of golden hills, scrub and blue mountains sloping toward a calm bay under a pale sky.

Mouth of the Aorere River, Golden Bay, Nelson, N.Z.

James Crowe Richmond, 1871

Woodcut of Ecce Homo: a crowned, bare-chested Christ shown from a portico to a crowd of soldiers and onlookers.

Ecce Homo

Albrecht Dürer, 1498

Etching of a Venetian waterfront with an arched stone bridge, a classical prison building, Gothic palace and gondolas.

Le Preson V (The Prison). From: Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal

Canaletto, 1735

Senator Billy Mason

Anders Zorn, 1900

Coloured lithograph of Wellington Harbour with anchored sailing ships, a town on the shore, and mountains beyond the bay.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Wellington Harbour

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Drawing of a dusky town street with a cobbled road, stone bridge, tall cypress tree and glowing street lamps.

Dusk

Pencil sketch of a domed cathedral above a Florentine-style town, framed by tall cypress trees and a large leafy tree.

Untitled. (Italian landscape with view of the Duomo, Florence)

William Henry Fox Talbot

Graphite drawing of crumbling Gothic ruins with a pointed arch, a tree, and a distant bridge over water.

Ruins

John Sell Cotman

Monochrome print of Roto-rua lake with steaming vents, hills, a distant island and a rider on a rocky path.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate III. Roto-rua

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Etching of a woman on a donkey at an inn doorway, with men, resting donkeys and sheep in a rural scene.

The rest before the inn

Nicolaes Berchem the Elder, 1652

Hand painted plate of fifteen numbered moths in brown, grey, blue and orange tones, labelled Plate VII.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Chromolithograph of the Madonna and Child enthroned with angel musicians, saints and a kneeling donor under a blue starry sky

Madonna and Child

Mrs Anne-Margaretta Higford Burr

Watercolor botanical study of blue orchid flowers with green leaves and pale tubers, with handwritten notes at upper right.

Thelymitra pterostylis

Fanny Richardson, 1931