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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Grey wash landscape of mountains above a valley with a tarn, framed by trees and two grazing cattle in the foreground.

Longbrigg Tarn

Anthony Copley Fielding

Crowded engraved scene of a city celebration with a statue on a barrel pedestal, chimneys, ships and feasting crowds.

Worship of Bacchus

George Cruikshank, 1864

Soft-toned print of a bearded older man with tousled hair, head bowed, emerging from a dark background.

Portrait of Jean Dolent

Eugène Carrière, 1898

Watercolor of Canterbury Castle ruins with cattle, a wooden cart, cottages and trees under a pale sky.

Canterbury Castle, Kent

Etching of a bay with mountains, figures hauling a net on the shore, small boats, and a smoke plume at right.

Presqu'île de Banks, Pointe des Charbonniers, Akaroa

Charles Meryon, 1863

Drawing of a stream flowing past pine trees and melting snow patches under a grey sky, with fields in the distance.

The thaw

Watercolor of a rocky mountain stream running through green hills under a pale cloudy sky.

Mountain stream, Kaikoura

Alfred Walsh, 1910

Grey botanical drawing of a slender plant with narrow leaves, roots and three flower heads on tall stems.

Phacellothrix cladochaeta (F. Muller) F. Mueller

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved botanical plate of a climbing vine with heart-shaped leaves and clusters of white flowers on cream paper.

Stigmaphyllon auriculatum (Cavanilles) Adr. Jussieu in A. Saint-Hilaire

Sydney Parkinson

Monochrome botanical print of a branching sprig with small leaves and tiny flower clusters on upright spikes.

Baeckea imbricata (Gaertner) Druce

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil and charcoal sketch of sloping mountain terrain with hatched shading on a numbered sketchbook page.

Landscape sketch from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Engraved botanical plate of a leafy branch with clusters of small white flowers and separate floral details.

Buchanania arborescens (Blume) Blume

Sydney Parkinson

Two studies of a young boy: 1. Standing with staff in hands. 2. Leaning against wall, one leg crossed over the other

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketchbook page with a standing figure at left, a sailing boat and a rowing boat with two people on rippling water.

Sketches of figure and of boats in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Woodcut bookplate of a seated man in a wig beside books, a child in a garden seen through a window, text Ex Libris Saidie A M

Book plate for Saidie A. May

Charles Nightingale, 1923

Pencil sketch of a tree-lined gravel path, church tower and town houses, with handwritten material notes in the margins.

Untitled (Sketch identified as Deal, Kent)

Nicholas Chevalier

Pencil sketch of a river valley with trees and shrubs along the banks and a sloping hillside on the right.

Teremakau looking west

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of two men struggling, one bent low gripping the other, with a faint smaller figure at upper right.

Figures fighting

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil and brown ink sketch of reclining nude figures, including a woman and a child, arranged in two horizontal rows.

Sketch No. 2

Engraved harbour scene of Plymouth with sailing boats, a fortified headland, workers on a pier, and a rainbow over a stormy s

Plymouth

Thomas Lupton, 1856

Grey botanical drawing of a branching plant with oval leaves and small flower clusters on a cream background.

Chenopodium allanii Aellen

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of a sailing boat on a calm lake with hazy mountains and a village along the shore.

Lake of Como

Richard Leitch, 1840

Pencil sketchbook page with loose studies of tree trunks and foliage on the left, handwritten notes, and a blank right side.

Page from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Watercolor of a misty river valley with a small house, trees, a fallen log, and blue mountains in the distance.

The Tararua Mountains and the Waipoua River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Engraving of muses and laureate poets around a fountain, with Pegasus rearing above a stream on Mount Parnassus.

Assembly of the muses and poets on Mount Parnassus

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Watercolour and pencil sketch of a headscarfed woman seated with hands in her lap, on cream paper.

Watercolour sketch of a headscarfed woman

Gertrud Kauders, 1905

Grey pencil botanical drawing of a shrub with narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers, with small dissection sketches.

Platysace lanceolata (Labillardiere) Druce

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor still life of pink hyacinths in pots, a blue and white teacup on a silver tray, and a patterned cloth.

Still life with hyacinths and a teacup

Gertrud Kauders, 1905

Hand-colored 1842 portrait of a Flat head warrior with red face paint, feather headdress and fringed garment.

H'co-a-h'co-a-h'cotes-min : a Flat head warrior From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

John Harris, 1842

Engraving of the Virgin seated under a tree holding the infant Christ, with a distant landscape and clouds behind.

The Virgin and child seated near a tree

Francesco Brizio, 1595