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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Watercolor of a horse and cart on a beach where workers gather seaweed at low tide, with a sailing ship offshore.

Gathering seaweed

Shepherd with a staff watching sheep graze in a field as rain streaks down from a grey sky.

Rain

Woodblock print of a samurai with a bow beside two crouching islanders on a beach with ocean waves behind.

Courageous warriors (Musha burui): 31: Chinzei Hachiro Tametomo with two islanders on the beach at Izu-Ōshima

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1883

Engraving of Psyche holding a lamp over the sleeping nude Cupid on a bed, with a dagger on a table beside them.

Cupid and Psyche

Claude Mellan, 1626

Engraving of a robed woman holding an infant, with a dog, coat of arms, column and Latin inscription below.

Charity/ Compassion. From: The Virtues

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1552

Brown ink drawing of a bearded figure crowning a kneeling woman, with two putti in scrolled frames below.

The Coronation of the Virgin and frieze of putti

Girolamo del Pacchia

Monochrome print of two women in long robes, one playing violin and one reading sheet music, with hills and ruins behind.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1875

Watercolor portrait of a young woman in a white rose-decorated gown with a long train, holding a fan beside a cabinet.

Portrait of Julie Farmer

Nicholas Chevalier, 1874

Pencil portrait of a curly-haired man in a white cravat and dark coat, with the name Francis G. Hare beneath.

Francis G.Hare

Ink sketch of a standing man in a long dark coat beside handwritten text on aged paper, with a signature at lower right.

Sketch from a letter

Misty etching of a steel cantilever railway bridge over water, with distant ships on the right under a pale sky.

The Forth

William Walcot, 1922

Etching of a sailing boat on a river at sunset, with dark silhouetted trees and buildings along the far bank.

Sunset on the Thames

Francis Haden, 1860

Engraved portrait of William Harvey, M.D., in an oval frame with books, a scroll, flowers and an anatomical vessel diagram.

William Harvey, MD

Watercolour illustration of a long silver great ribband fish with red fin rays and a scale bar beneath it.

Regalecus glesne (Great Ribband fish)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1895

Watercolor of a brick windmill with sails beside a grassy riverbank, trees, reeds and birds in a pale sky.

Windmill, St. Benet's Abbey

John Sell Cotman

Etching of a seated man in a dark coat beside a woman holding a child, with spectators in a courtroom gallery behind.

Le Prévenu et l'Enfant (The accused and the child)

Jean-Louis Forain

Watercolor of a seated woman dipping her foot in a pond beneath a large tree, with reeds and a white drape.

Woman bathing

Engraving of Perseus holding Medusa's head toward Atlas, a bearded muscular figure, amid trees and rocks, with a sea creature

Perseus changing Atlas into a mountain with the head of Medusa

Cherubino Alberti, 1570

Sepia print of a seated woman in drapery braiding her hair beside a column, with a distant landscape behind her.

Woman binding a pigtail

Angelica Kauffmann, 1765

Sepia print of robed women in procession across a checkered floor, with an armored guard holding a spear at right.

The Princess Sabra Lead to the Stake. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1866

Watercolor sketch of a walled town with a red-arched gateway, a crowd of people, and sandy ground under a grey sky.

Village on the Red Sea

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

Watercolor of a Gothic cathedral portal beside a half-timbered house, with a lone figure walking a curving street.

Cathedral Caudebec en Caux, Normandy, France

William Wildman, 1907

Watercolor drawing of a yellow-brown fish with a large eye and fanned fins, labelled Platystethus abbrevatus.

Platystethus abbrevatus

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Watercolour of a dwarf tutu plant with clusters of dark purple berries, green leaves and roots on pale paper.

Dwarf Tutu, Mt Egmont

Fanny Richardson

Etching of a seated woman pointing to a sketch on a drawing board, with Latin title text above, by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645.

Title plate for the set of drawings: Varie figuræ

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Watercolour drawing of a grey-blue rock cod in side view, with fin counts and handwritten notes on the paper.

Pseudophycis barbata (Tas) : Southern Bastard Red Cod

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Brown wash drawing of three fishermen by a lake framed by trees, with a stone bridge and church spire in the distance.

View of Stourhead

Richard Hoare, 1780

Etching of a classical villa with a stone staircase, statues, cypress trees, and a crowd of figures in a courtyard.

Villa Quintilli

William Walcot, 1921

Lithograph portrait of a man in a dark coat and waistcoat, seated at a table with his hand on an open book.

Portrait of John Lee

Thomas Maguire, 1849

Watercolor drawing of a small silvery fish with red-dotted sides, with handwritten fin counts and labels on cream paper.

Maurolicus muelleri

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870