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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Monochrome botanical drawing of a branch with drooping narrow leaves, flower clusters and seed pods on a cream sheet.

Decaisnina brittenii (Blakely) Barlow

Sydney Parkinson

Monochrome botanical drawing of a leafy branch with long veined leaves and slender flower spikes on cream paper.

Croton compressus Lamarck

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of a river valley with native bush, tree ferns, eroded cliffs and distant snow-capped mountains under a pale sky.

The Manawatu

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1873

Botanical drawing of a plant with long narrow leaves, a tall flowering stem, and small dissected floret details on pale paper

Perezia lactucoides (Vahl) Lessing

Sydney Parkinson

Line drawing of a slender Utricularia limosa plant with a curved flower stalk, bladder traps on roots, and two detached flowe

Utricularia limosa Banks & Solander ex R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil sketch of tree ferns, twisting vines and hanging fronds in a dense bush setting, by Nicholas Chevalier, 1866.

Hokitika Cemetery

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Botanical illustration of a branching shrub with narrow leaves and small white flowers, with magnified flower details below.

Leucopogon ruscifolius R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor landscape of tall trees framing a shepherd with sheep and distant mountains in warm light.

Landscape through trees

George Barret, 1750

Botanical engraving of Philydrum lanuginosum with narrow leaves, flowering stems, roots, and a small floral detail.

Philydrum lanuginosum Gaertner

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor scientific drawing of a slender silvery fish with yellow fins, plus an enlarged head with open mouth and teeth.

Benthodesmus elongatus (NZ) : Slender frostfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1874

Botanical print of a leafy branch with elliptical serrated leaves, catkins and small floral detail drawings in grey tones.

Streblus heterophyllus (Blume) Corner var. elliptica (Kirk) Corner

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of a bearded man seated in a chair raising a brush, with a window behind him and a wooden floor.

Edwin Edwards painting

Charles Samuel Keene, 1850

Botanical drawing of a slender plant with roots, flowering spikes and small floral detail studies on cream paper.

Salomonia oblongifolia de Candolle

Sydney Parkinson

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

Rhynchosia acuminatissima Miquel

Sydney Parkinson

Monochrome botanical print of a stem with several papery everlasting flower heads and long narrow leaves.

Helichrysum bracteatum (Ventenat) Andrews

Sydney Parkinson

Sepia lithograph of Freeman's Bay, Auckland Harbour, with sailing ships, a steamship, a pier and rocky hills under a cloudy s

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate III. Freeman's Bay, Auckland Harbour

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Monochrome botanical print of a branch with small rounded leaves and tiny white flowers on cream paper.

Phyllanthus dallachyanus Bentham

Sydney Parkinson

Hand-colored print of a family on grass: a woman and child standing, men seated around a board game, one man holding a pole.

Koorai : a fishermans family From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

J Bull, 1842

Watercolor of a lake with a sailboat, forested shores, and snow-capped mountains under soft clouds.

South Island Landscape

John Hoyte, 1870

Engraved botanical print of a small Rotala plant with slender leafy stems and a detailed flower study beside it.

Rotala mexicana Schlechtendal & Chamisso

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolour of a calm river between wooded hills with a small sailing ship at anchor and distant mountains.

Site of Greymouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Engraved botanical plate of two fern fronds and a detached frond segment, with a handwritten caption at the bottom.

Asplenium terrestre Brownsey subsp. maritimum Brownsey

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Red chalk portrait of a young girl in a close cap and high-collared dress, gazing to the side, signed A. Legros 1904.

Tête de jeune fille (Head of a young girl)

Alphonse Legros, 1904

Hand-painted entomology plate VII showing numbered fly specimens, larvae and pupae with scale bars.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Title page with blue ornate lettering and an oval watercolour of snowy mountains, a lake, a sailboat and conifer trees.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The Remarkables (Title page)

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Grayscale lithograph of a man with wavy hair in a waistcoat and jacket, resting his arm on a stack of books.

Portrait of I.S.Henslow

Thomas Maguire, 1849

Loose pencil sketch of a seated figure in a hat holding an oar, on an empty sketchbook page with a scale ruler below.

Sketch from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Pencil sketch of a sailing ship on Cook Strait with distant mountains and cliffs under a cloudy sky.

The Kaikoura Mountains and Cook Strait

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Etching of a narrow Edinburgh close with a tall tenement, stone archway, lamps and small figures on cobbles.

The Edinburgh set. Bakehouse Close, Old Edinburgh

Albert Fullwood, 1906

Watercolour of riders and horse-drawn carts crossing a hazy sandy flat under a glowing sky, with birds and a dog.

Lancaster Sands

David Cox the elder