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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,737 works

Pencil and watercolor botanical drawing of a white-flowered Ourisia plant with rosette leaves and roots on beige paper.

Ourisia glandulosa Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of a blindfolded woman playing a game in a wooded clearing with three other women among tall trees.

Blind man's bluff

Angelica Kauffmann

Black and white wood engraving of a candlestick, flower vase and folded cloth on a tilted table, by Paul Nash, 1924.

Still life. 1

Paul Nash, 1924

Watercolour of a river with a tall tree, a seated figure, a moored sailing boat, and castle towers under an evening sky.

Capriccio view on the Thames near Windsor

Watercolor of a river at sunset with two figures on a grassy bank, trees on the right, and pink sky above.

Waikato River with figures

Frank Wright, 1885

Etching of an abandoned wooden wash-house by a riverbank with trees, an arched bridge, and chimneys in the background.

Le lavoir abandonné (environs de Troyes). The abandoned wash-house (near Troyes)

Gustave Leheutre, 1903

Pencil sketch of a crouching soldier in a kilt with a rifle lying on the ground beside him.

Two studies of a soldier in a kilt: 1. On the battlefield with gun at side. 2. Seated on stool

Engraved portrait of Captain James Cook in a powdered wig and braided dark coat, against a dark background.

Captain James Cook

Pencil sketch of a hay wagon and horses passing trees and buildings in a rural landscape on grey paper.

Sketch of a hay wagon

Sketch of a flute player. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Sepia lithograph of Port Nicholson harbour with hills, headlands, small islands, boats and distant mountains.

Birdseye view of Port Nicholson in New Zealand

Thomas Allom, 1839

Pencil sketch of a wooden table with pegged planks and splayed legs, plus a small stool study and handwritten notes.

Sketch of wooden tables. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Blennodon dorsale (Giant triplefin)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1871

Watercolour of a harbour with tents and buildings on a headland, sailing boats, canoes and ships on water, and a distant coni

Tauranga Harbour and camp at 64th & 43rd regiments

Major General George Jackson Carey, 1863

Watercolour of a dirt road beside a lagoon, with a wagon, wooden buildings, a rowboat and ochre hills under a grey sky.

Head of Totara Lagoon, Northland

William Marshall Cooper, 1867

Graphite sketch of hills, trees and clouds in a landscape, labelled Kumara, on a sketchbook page.

Sketch of Kumara landscape in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Portrait miniature (Woman with a bird)

Pen and grey wash drawing of a calm coastline with cliffs, a hilltop town, a ruined castle, boats and seated figures.

Coastal scene

2 heads from life. (Man's head)

Elizabeth Berry, 1926

Triptych print of three women in kimono viewing cherry blossom trees by a river, with boats in the distance.

Three women viewing cherry blossom on a riverbank

Utagawa Kunisada, 1850

Sepia print of a hooded bearded man and a woman in a cloak in a dim medieval-style interior with a cabinet and alchemical ves

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1896

Sepia etching of a man in a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, with a small sketched portrait in the lower margin.

Whistler's 'Portrait of himself'

Henri Charles Guérard

Sepia wash drawing of a ruined castle beyond a stone arched bridge over a river, with trees on the right.

Conway Castle, North Wales

Andrew Donaldson

Pencil sketch of a harbour with anchored sailing ships, rolling hills behind, and rooftops and trees in the foreground.

Untitled (two sketches: architectural details)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1865

Charcoal sketch of a flat landscape with a windblown tree and small figures walking across the field.

Landscape with trees and travellers. From An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolor of a sailing ship's rigging and sails with choppy turquoise sea waves breaking alongside the hull.

In the Western Ocean

Arthur Briscoe, 1928

Watercolour of surf breaking along a sandy beach toward a distant headland, with grassy dunes and a cloudy sky.

Nine mile beach looking North from Totara

William Francis Herring, 1928

Etching of a young woman in a wide-brimmed hat holding a bouquet of daisies in a meadow.

Meadowsweet

Lionel Smythe, 1889

Paul Sandby drawing of a Gothic gateway at Windsor, with a sentry, pedestrians and a church tower beyond.

The Tower Gate at Windsor Castle 1767

Paul Sandby, 1767

Watercolour of a horse and cart on a wooded track beside boulders, with three figures and a hazy distant landscape.

A quarry near Plymouth

William Payne, 1791