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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,734 works

Watercolor drawing of a Gothic church portal with a pointed arch, clustered columns and a vaulted interior beyond.

Church entrance

John Sell Cotman

Sepia drawing of hills and snow-capped mountains seen from a vegetated foreground with trees and tussock grass.

View of Kaikoura Mountains and Cook Strait from Otari Hill, Port Nicholson

William John Warburton Hamilton, 1849

Grey botanical drawing of a Urtica ferox stem with serrated leaves and small flower clusters on a cream background.

Urtica ferox G. Forster

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Trachipterus trachypterus (NZ) : Ribbonfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1880

Pencil sketch of a mountain road with a horse-drawn carriage climbing a steep rocky pass, with handwritten notes.

Porters Pass looking up

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of two head studies of a woman in large plumed hats, one looking up and one looking toward the viewer.

Untitled. [Two head studies of a woman wearing a hat]

Woodcut of a martyrdom scene with executioners, bound captives, onlookers and a rocky forest landscape by Albrecht Dürer.

The martyrdom of the ten thousand

Albrecht Dürer, 1497

Etching of a harbour with moored ships, arched stone buildings, rowing boat with figures, and a distant lighthouse.

Harbour scene with a lighthouse

Claude Lorrain, 1638

Pencil botanical drawing of a branch with narrow leaves and small clustered flowers on an off-white sheet.

Melaleuca thymifolia Smith

Sydney Parkinson

Engraved portrait of a balding man with mustache and lace collar in an octagonal frame, dated 1623.

Marcello Provenzali

Ottavio Mario Leoni, 1623

Engraved botanical print of a branch with serrated leaves, buds, and a row of dissected flower and fruit details.

Nothofagus antarctica (G. Forster) Oersted

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil sketch of two women in fashionable dress and hats, one standing facing forward and one turned away.

Two studies of a woman in fashionable dress: 1. standing. 2. Reclining

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolor landscape of a waterfall and stream beneath trees, with a stone wall, wooden footbridge and red-roofed cottage.

The mill at Heather

William Crotch, 1802

Monochrome botanical drawing of a leafy branch with white flowers and round fruits, labelled in pencil at the bottom.

Synoum glandulosum (Smith) A.H.L. de Jussieu

Sydney Parkinson

Black-and-white print of a church bell tower, trees and stone walls beside a river, with a fortress on the hill and figures o

On the Darro, Granada

Westley Manning

Engraved street scene of a Roman woman with a basket and a cloaked man beside a trattoria alcove, 1820.

Costume of Rome

Richard Bridgens, 1820

Pencil sketch of a mountain pass with a tall rock face, riders on a winding path, and scattered boulders.

Weka Pass

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Hand painted entomology plate X showing numbered moths, caterpillars and pupae in brown, green and red tones.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate X]

George Hudson, 1886

Monochrome botanical plate of a spiny branch with two woody seed capsules and a detached seed.

Hakea gibbosa (Smith) Cavanilles

Sydney Parkinson

Engraving of a bearded man in a robe and headcloth standing before a ruined stone wall with arched niches.

St Philip. Plate 8. From: Christ and the Apostles

Lambert Suavius, 1545

Etching of a hilltop church with a bell tower framed by tall cypress trees, with a plain and distant hills beyond.

The Church of St. Francis, Assisi

Westley Manning, 1926

Engraved landscape with a rock arch, waterfall, trees, and a kneeling figure beneath rays of light from the sky.

Rocky landscape with the stigmatisation of St Francis

Aegidius Sadeler, 1595

Monochrome botanical print of a Galactia plant with oval leaflets, pea-like flowers and two slender seed pods on cream paper.

Galactia tenuiflora (Klein ex Willdenow) Wight and Arnott

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of snowy Southern Alps peaks and a glacier valley, with a walker and dog on a wooded slope in the foreground.

Southern Alps glacier view with figure and dog in foreground

Thomas Cousins, 1886

Pencil sketch of tall birch trees with sparse branches and feathery foliage above shaded ground, with handwritten note below.

Birches on the Bealey Road

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Grey botanical illustration of a slender branching shrub with narrow leaves and small white flowers on cream paper.

Leucopogon virgatus (Labillardiere) R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil botanical drawing of a branching plant with pinnate leaves, pea-like flowers and slender pods on cream paper.

Lotus australis Andrews

Sydney Parkinson

Sepia print of an armored knight beside a nude woman chained to a stone pillar on rocks in the sea, with a city behind.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1888

Etching of a curving city street with shopfronts, an awning, and pedestrians including a man in a top hat.

Street scene

Raymond McIntyre, 1917

Vertical Japanese woodblock print of two women in kimono by a stream with blossoms, with calligraphy at upper left.

Ide no Tamagawa: Yamashiro no meisho (The Crystal River at Ide: a famous spot in Yamashiro), from the series Fuzuko m…

Suzuki Harunobu, 1769