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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Print of a stylized mechanical diagram with numbered wheels, silver and grey forms on yellow and pink, with handwritten Frenc

Petite solitude au milieu des soleils [A little solitude in the midst of suns]

Francis Picabia, 1915

Botanical drawing of Abrotanella inconspicua with a white flowering cushion, tufted foliage and a dissected flower.

Abrotanella inconspicua Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Charcoal sketch of a figure in a long coat and hat walking along a diagonal path on a cream sketchbook page.

Photographer in landscape in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Naive drawing of a curved harbour with sailing ships, a Union Jack, white houses on hills, and figures in the foreground.

View of Wellington

Botanical drawing of a Gleichenia fern with branching fronds and a detailed pinnule segment at left, on cream paper.

Gleichenia dicarpa R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Line drawing of three nude women bathing near spired buildings, a lattice bridge and water, by Raoul Dufy.

Three bathers. (Trois baigneuses)

Raoul Dufy, 1925

Etching of a young girl in a white bonnet and striped shawl, with a hatched village street and buildings behind her.

A child of the people

William Lee-Hankey, 1916

Ink and wash drawing of a winding river through a forested valley with pine trees and distant mountains.

Waiau River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor sketch of a woman in a long gown and white cap, seen from behind, beside a reddish bench.

Dutch woman as seen from behind

Petrus van der Velden

Engraved crowded fair scene with a stage, flags, tightrope walker and a collapsing building among the throng of people.

Southwark Fair. January 1733-34

Ernst Riepenhausen, 1733

Panoramic pencil and blue wash drawing of a lake with snowy mountains, a rowboat and small buildings on the shore.

Untitled (Tekapo, lake and mountains)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pen and wash drawing of a group of hounds resting on a stone terrace, one spotted dog standing in the foreground.

Dogs

Sepia print of a seated armored king looking up at a barefoot woman on a dais, with two attendants on a balcony above.

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1884

Monochrome print of a robed woman bending to a kneeling child in a walled garden with lilies, a town street behind.

The Prioress's Tale. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1865

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Holy Family with St. Anne, the Virgin holding the Christ Child, figures with halos.

The Holy Family with St. Anne

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Watercolor of a steep peak beside a calm fjord with snowy mountains and clouds, with grasses and driftwood on the shore.

Milford Sound

James Crowe Richmond, 1887

Charcoal sketch of figures hanging laundry on a line before rolling hills, on a sketchbook page numbered 32.

Charcoal sketch of line of laundry with hills in A Wellington sketchbook c 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Etching of a shepherd with a staff watching a flock of sheep drinking at a pond beside trees.

Sheep drinking

Charles Émile Jacque, 1878

Watercolor of a vase of colorful zinnias in front of a grey lace curtain, signed Dorothy Richmond, 1926.

Zinnias

Dorothy Richmond, 1926

Pencil and blue wash sketch of a mountain pass with a dirt road, rocky cliffs, and two figures with a pack animal.

Porters Pass about 1/4 mile from the accommodation house

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Black and cream woodcut of an interior with two chairs, a patterned rug, tall window panels and star motifs.

French window

Raymond McIntyre, 1925

Watercolor drawing of a figure on a mountain path with snowy peaks and a deep valley in the background.

Mountain scene

A fish from New Zealand

Johann Georg Adam Forster

Red chalk sketches of a crucified figure, a seated haloed man, and a group of figures, with handwritten Italian text below.

Untitled. Studies for a Salome dancing before Herod: Christ and the Magdalen(?): a Crucifixion: a Christ for a Noli m…

Bernardino Poccetti

Brown wash drawing of a stone mill with a water wheel beside a pond, framed by trees and small figures on paths.

Foxley Mill, near Malmesbury

Thomas Hearne, 1802

Watercolor scientific illustration of a white spotted greyling fish in side view, with fin counts written above.

Prototroctes oxyrhynchus (White spotted greyling)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1889

Etching of river boats and houseboats moored along a busy riverbank, with figures working and bathing at the water's edge.

River craft, Benares

Ernest Stephen Lumsden, 1925

Graphite sketch of two women seen from behind, wearing headscarves, on a cream sketchbook page.

Sketch of two female figures. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Pencil sketch of various figures, including Sigmund Kauders

Gertrud Kauders, 1903

Engraved botanical plate of a branching conifer sprig with a detail of a cone, labelled along the bottom margin.

Dacrydium cupressinum Solander ex Lambert

Sydney Parkinson, 1895