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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Woodblock print of a seated woman in a patterned kimono beside a lacquer box, with a shoreline vignette above.

Ichikawa of the Matsubaya

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

Circular print of a reclining woman, a child holding grapes, a standing figure by a vine, and a stone doorway.

Hot August

Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1898

Etching of an elderly woman knitting in an armchair beside a window with bare winter trees and a lamp.

Winter afternoon

Francis Dodd, 1910

Pencil sketch of a rugged mountain landscape with rocky slopes, inscribed Porters Pass, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch inscribed Porters Pass from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Charcoal landscape sketch of a hatched mountain ridge above a rough foreground, from an 1891 sketchbook page.

Landscape sketch in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Engraved botanical plate of a Euphorbia glauca branch with long leaves, flower buds, and small floral dissections.

Euphorbia glauca G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Woman in a patterned kimono views a silhouette of a man with a pipe behind a shoji screen, in a Japanese woodblock print.

Woman viewing a silhouette

Utagawa Sadahide, 1856

Watercolor of ruined old kirk on a hill with two figures in highland dress overlooking misty mountains and trees.

Ruins of the Old Kirk, Isle of Bute

Watercolor street scene of gabled houses, a church tower, and figures walking on a road in soft grey-brown tones.

Street scene

Watercolor of a river through rocky highland terrain with purple mountains, autumn trees, and a lone figure on the bank.

In the Highlands, Glengarry

William Leitch, 1870

Pen-and-ink botanical print of two fern fronds and a detailed fertile leaf section, with a handwritten Latin label below.

Lastreopsis glabella (Cunningham) Tindale

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of four ducks swimming on a rippled pond beside reeds and overhanging trees, signed Frank W. Benson, 1919.

Broadbills

Frank Weston Benson, 1919

Black and cream print of tall bamboo stalks and leaves framing a distant mountain and stylized clouds.

Bamboe (bamboo)

Johannes Klooster, 1920

Watercolour of Endeavour Inlet with a steamship on calm water, wooded hills, and sandy tidal flats in the foreground.

Endeavour Inlet

Mrs Isabel Field, 1910

Muted watercolor of a small snow-covered house in rolling winter fields with distant mountains under a grey-blue sky.

House in the snow

Charles Collings

Abstract textile design of overlapping red, salmon, ochre and maroon rectangles and bars on a cream ground with pencil grid l

Untitled (Textile design no IV)

Frances Hodgkins, 1925

Watercolor of Welsh mountains above a valley river with a stone bridge, figures on the bank, and grazing cattle.

Welsh mountains

Pencil botanical drawing of a spreading Samolus repens plant with slender stems, small leaves, tiny flowers and roots.

Samolus repens (Forster & G. Forster) Persoon

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil sketch of a wharf with a small hut, a crane, a mooring post and figures on a cream sketchbook page.

Wharf scene from A wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Monochrome botanical print of a Lagenifera lanata rosette with four slender stalks ending in small white flower heads.

Lagenifera lanata Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of a rainy night street with an ornate building, a horse-drawn cart and umbrella-carrying pedestrians.

Rainy night in Rome

Muirhead Bone, 1913

Misty grey print of a small boat on calm water with a distant shoreline and faint sailing masts on the horizon.

Morning haze in Chichester Harbour

Frank Short, 1922

Woodblock print of carved pillars in a rock-cut cave temple with figures in colourful saris and turbans.

Third cave temple in Ellora

Hiroshi Yoshida, 1931

Watercolor of a misty lake with mountains, a wooded island and a rowboat with two figures under rain clouds.

Monastery of St. Finbarr, Gougane, Barra, Co. Cork, Ireland

Engraved studio interior with a chandelier, columns, and walls covered in portraits of uniformed men, with figures on the flo

Mr Dawe's Atelier

Thomas Wright, 1825

Etching of a bearded hermit kneeling with a crucifix as a bat-eared demon approaches from the left, with a skull on the groun

Temptation of St Antony

Andries Both, 1628

Hand painted plate of twelve numbered caterpillars in varied colours, each with a scale bar, labelled Plate IX.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Pencil botanical sketch of lancewood and ngaio plants on tan paper with handwritten colour notes.

Bush Studies: Lancewood and Ngaio

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black crayon lithograph of a man in a flat cap and bow tie beside an easel, with loose hatched shading.

Self portrait at the easel

Drawing of a stormy sea shore with a fortified ship flying a flag, sailboats, and figures on rocks at right.

Sea shore