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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Watercolour drawing of a man with a whip and a boy holding a rope tied to a pig in a rural landscape.

Man and boy with a pig

Thomas Rowlandson

Watercolour of a Gothic church tower and timber-framed house on a town street, with small figures and a pale sky.

St. Peter's Church, Warwick

Robert Burford, 1818

The military lover

Thomas Rowlandson

Grey botanical drawing of a slender Stellaria parviflora stem with small leaves and buds on cream paper.

Stellaria parviflora Banks & Solander ex Hooker f

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolour of a seated young woman in red and brown with geese and a bucket by a pond, farmhouse in background.

The right of way

William Lee-Hankey, 1902

Pencil sketch of a mountain ridge with hatched shading and streaming clouds, drawn on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of Mt Rolleston. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Pencil sketch of a hillside with a winding road and a small standing figure, numbered 53 in a sketchbook.

Figure on mountain road in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Charcoal sketch on a sketchbook page showing a building at left and a rugged mountain landscape with a path at right.

Two scenes from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Hand-colored engraved portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa, Mandan chief, with red face paint and long dark hair.

Mah-to-toh-pa.(The four bears) 2nd chief of the Mandans. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

John Harris, 1842

Colour print of a speckled brook trout leaping from a river past green riverside plants and rocks, with a fishing line.

Untitled - Samuel Kilbourne, 1874

Samuel Kilbourne, 1874

Pen drawing of a tall botanical specimen with narrow serrated leaves and clustered flower heads, with handwritten labels belo

Senecio wairauensis Belcher. Formerly Erechtites prenanthoides

John Buchanan, 1865

Pale grey botanical drawing of a creeping Selliera radicans plant with narrow leaves, small flowers and roots along its stem.

Selliera radicans Cavanilles

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Etching of a speaker with one arm raised above a crowd of listeners against a pale sky.

The orator

Arthur Briscoe, 1926

Colour woodcut of white and pink flowers and large leaves in a footed vase against a yellow geometric background.

Bouquet

Eva Auld Watson, 1930

Reproduction of Caritas showing a draped woman holding two infants, with children below and fruit branches above.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1867

Etching of a Paris riverside with stone quay, smoking chimneys, moored barges and townhouses, by Charles Meryon.

The Morgue, Paris

Charles Meryon, 1854

Etching of cattle, a horse, sheep and goats crossing a hillside toward two men under trees, with a distant building and boat.

The animals entering Noah's ark

Giovanni Castiglione, 1650

Watercolour of a snow-capped conical mountain above misty forest, with rocks and trees in the foreground.

Mt Egmont

John Hoyte, 1873

Watercolor of sailboats on a grey estuary with rowboats in the foreground and a stormy, overcast sky above.

Blakeney

Mark Widdington Fisher, 1906

Etching of bare trees in the foreground, farm buildings and rolling hills behind, by Camille Pissarro, 1880.

Paysage à l'Hermitage (Pontoise); (Landscape at l'Hermitage, Pontoise)

Camille Pissarro, 1880

Woodcut of a bound figure before a bearded high priest, surrounded by armed soldiers with spears in a stone hall.

Christ before Annas. From: The small Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1508

Rexea furcifera Waite

Frank Edward Clarke

Engraved bust portrait of a man with wavy hair, white cravat and dark coat, on a foxed paper sheet.

C J Abraham 1st Bishop of New Zealand

George Richmond

Engraving of the Pentecost with Mary and apostles in a room, flames descending, Trinity and angels above.

Sacra dies pentecostes

Johannes Wierix, 1595

Lithograph of a seated man with arms folded and head bowed, dressed in a dark coat, by Honoré Daumier, 1835.

La Caricature. Plate 519. Lannes (Duc de Montebello)

Honoré Daumier, 1835

Pencil sketch of a dim interior with a table, chairs and a group of men in hats gathered near a counter.

Two page depiction of interior in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Line drawing of a tall tree with lobed leaves framing a Gothic cathedral with spire and rose window.

Notre Dame, Paris

Henri Matisse, 1937

Red lithograph of two women, one holding a strand of beads and the other seated with a flower wreath and bowl.

The bead necklace

Charles Haslewood Shannon, 1908

Flat geometric print of a stylised figure in black, white, yellow and red, framed by red bands and a blue strip.

Époque mécanique

Fernand Léger, 1919

Charcoal and pencil sketch of hills on a sketchbook page, dark masses on the sides with pale ridges below.

Sketch of hills from an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893