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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Pencil sketch of a bearded man in cavalier costume with a sword, seated on a stool beside a ledge with a glass.

Two studies of a cavalier: 1. Standing with hand on hip. 2. Seated on stool

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Pencil sketch of a mountain range above a valley and lake shore, with grazing animals and handwritten colour notes.

Untitled (Mt Cook and Lake Pukaki.)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraving of an elegant room where lawyers review papers at a table while a young couple sits apart beside a dog.

Marriage à-la-mode. Plate 1. The marriage settlement

William Hogarth, 1745

Watercolour interior scene of a seated mistress in a dark dress facing three standing maids in white aprons and caps.

Mistress and three servants

Monochrome botanical drawing of a branch with narrow leaves and small flower clusters, with a detail study of a flower at low

Styphelia fasciculata (G. Forster) Sleumer

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil sketch of a leafy plant with broad overlapping leaves and a flower bud on a sketchbook page.

Plant study in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Etching of a timber-framed cottage with a tall brick chimney, ivy on the right and wooden fence posts in the foreground.

An old cottage at Witley

Charles Samuel Keene, 1860

Color portrait of A. A. Milne standing by a balustrade in a navy suit, sweater vest and tie, smoking a pipe.

A. A. Milne. From : The Bookman Portfolio, December 1927

Spy Junior, 1927

Etching of peasants gathered around a table tasting flatbread beside a wooden fence, with a standing man holding a cane.

The five senses (taste)

Pencil sketch of a coastal town with windmills and buildings below rolling hills, with water in the foreground.

Greymouth

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Colour woodcut of children running and chasing hoops on a hillside, with a black dog leaping among them.

Children's hoops

Ethel Spowers, 1936

Etching of a soldier seated between two women with parasols in a rowboat, with moored ships in a harbour behind.

Entre les deux mon coeur balance

James Tissot, 1877

Pencil and blue wash drawing of a misty valley framed by trees, with a mountain and water in the distance.

Teremakau Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil drawing of a church interior with rounded arches, stone columns, a wooden pulpit and rows of chairs.

La Charité

Roger Fry, 1930

Faint brown sketch of a fortified structure with rows of small openings on a torn, irregular paper fragment.

Sketch of a redoubt. (a fragment)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Maccullochella sp (Tas)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Pencil sketch of a sailing craft above horizontal water strokes, with handwritten inscription, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of sailing craft.. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil drawing of four views of a fossil scapula labelled as Plesiosaurus, showing fractured bone with shaded surfaces.

Scapula of Plesiosaurus

Etching of a narrow courtyard with a dark shop doorway, small figures, a cart and tall windowed buildings.

Little court

James McNeill Whistler, 1881

Watercolour of a tall rounded rock outcrop above a rocky shoreline, with boulders in the foreground and a small structure at

Paritutu

James Crowe Richmond

Pencil sketch of a harbour with a steamship and sailing boats, mountains and a hillside village behind, grey tones.

Alhambra at anchor (Port Chalmers)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Sepia print of a valley with scattered houses, a steam train, forest, and snowy mountains under clouds.

Feilding North

Edith Halcombe, 1878

Pencil sketch of a snow-capped mountain above a river valley with trees and a small cottage, annotated Goats Pass.

Goats Pass. East branch of the Bealey

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Woodblock print of a woman holding a grey cat, with a crowded wooden bridge and boats on a river behind her.

Yokkaichi, scene from the series Yomairi hakkei (Eight views of night visiting)

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1844

Etching of an elderly man in a suit seated in a chair, arms crossed, looking to the side, against a pale background.

Old Postillion

Francis Dodd, 1920

Print of a nude woman beside a pedestal, with draped women in a doorway and a winged figure hanging garland above.

Venus Epithalamia. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1871

Sepia drawing of rocky cliffs, breaking surf, wooden wreckage and seabirds under a stormy sky.

The swimmer

William Hodgkins

Grey-toned botanical illustration of a Senecio lautus plant with lobed leaves and clusters of small daisy-like flowers.

Senecio lautus G. Forster ex Willdenow subsp. lautus

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor drawing of an old street in Norwich with gabled houses, a market stall with baskets, and figures in the foreground

Norwich

William Scott, 1824

Pencil sketch of a lake framed by forested hills and shrubs, with mountains rising in the distance.

Lake Rotoroa

James Crowe Richmond, 1864