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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

True N. Z. Kingfish Seriola grandis Castleman

Frank Edward Clarke

Abstract geometric print with blue, red, yellow and green crosses, circles and bars on a cream ground, framed by gray bands.

Quatre espaces à croix brisée [Four spaces with a broken cross]

Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1932

Watercolor of a three-masted ship with smoke on choppy sea, snow-capped mountains rising behind it under a pale sky.

The Kaikoura Mountains, N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Watercolor of a brown and white cow and several sheep resting on a grassy slope with distant hills.

Sheep and cow in landscape

Thomas Cooper, 1881

Pencil sketch of a lake beneath steep mountain peaks, with a small building on the shore in the foreground.

Lake Shepherd

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of farm buildings on a rise overlooking open plains, a winding river and distant mountains under a pale sky.

Mr MacKellar's Station, the Waimea Plains, Southland

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hand painted plate numbered 1 to 8 showing New Zealand neuroptera insects, winged adults and aquatic nymphs, in yellow and re

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate V]

George Hudson, 1904

Watercolour and pencil sketch of an old weathered wooden boat resting in shallow blue water with grass at its base.

Old boat

Petrus van der Velden

Sepia print of two fishermen in a rowboat on a calm river at dusk, under a crescent moon, with a tree and reeds on the banks.

The new moon

Frank Short, 1918

Watercolor of a Berne street with a flower stall, pedestrians, a horse cart and a clock tower with red spire.

A street in Berne, Switzerland

Charles Nathaniel Worsley

Watercolor of several sailing schooners at anchor in a calm harbour with reflections in turquoise water and a distant shoreli

Harbour

Alfred Walsh, 1912

Grey wash drawing of a three-masted ship firing a cannon at distant waterspouts on a calm, overcast sea.

Firing to break a waterspout

Hand-coloured engraving in three bands showing numbered figures in varied costumes, with a ship, canoe and palms, titled Tabl

Tableau des Decouvertes du Capne. Cook, & de la Pérouse [Tableau of the discoveries of Captain Cook and of La Perouse]

Monsieur Antoine Phelippeaux, 1796

Watercolour of purple-shaded mountains with a lone tree on a sunlit slope, fading distant ranges beneath a pale sky.

From Maitai saddle, Dun Mountain looking South up Waimea

James Crowe Richmond

Pale watercolor sketch of a sandy beach with a small figure, a triangular sail, and a cloud-filled blue sky.

Sketch - Frederick Mayor

Frederick Mayor

Etching of a figure leaning from a wooden boat beside a calm river, with tall trees along the far bank.

Morning on the river (Matin sur la rivière)

Alphonse Legros, 1890

Engraved square ornament design with a central rosette, scrolling acanthus foliage, grotesque faces, a mermaid and birds.

Geometric design for an ornamented ceiling

Daniel Hopfer, 1505

Sepia lithograph of snow-capped Mount Cook behind trees, with a sailboat on calm water and birds in the foreground.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate IV. Mount Cook from Hokitika

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Etching of a market gateway in Fez with pointed arches, robed figures, and strong light and shadow.

Market, Fez

Martin Hardie, 1929

Engraving of Christ in a crown of thorns carrying a cross past mourning women, soldiers and a fortified tower on a hill.

Christ carrying the Cross, plate 9 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1596

Portrait of Miss Amy Gaskell (Mrs. Bonham). From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1893

Sir Thomas Lestrange

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1793

Watercolor drawing of a brown flounder fish with fins spread, labeled with fin counts and the name Tasmanian flounder.

Rhombosolea tapirina : greenback flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Engraving of sailors landing from a boat onto a forested shore where armed Indigenous men stand, with a ship's mast at right.

The landing at Mallicolo, one of the New Hebrides

James Basire the Elder, 1777

Pencil sketch of a woman holding a baby in a doorway, drawn on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of a woman in a doorway holding a baby. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Panoramic lithograph of Government House in Wellington with harbour, sailing ships, hills and colonial buildings.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate I. Government House, Wellington

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Etching of moored sailing boats with tall masts beside a crowded quayside and brick buildings, by James Whistler.

Billingsgate

James McNeill Whistler, 1859

Pencil sketch of steep cliffs and rough surf at a rocky coast, with an overturned boat in the foreground waves.

Coast at the entrance of Dunedin Bay

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraving of three men preparing a pig over a fire beside a large cauldron, one holding a knife to the animal.

Three men sacrificing a pig

Watercolor landscape with orange hillside, green and yellow trees, teal foreground, and pale sky, signed Merton 1923.

Bastion of the day with assaulting trees

Owen Merton, 1923