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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Etching of a Peckham street with a Gothic church tower, shopfronts, a horse and cart and pedestrians.

Peckham

Francis Dodd, 1915

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus

Frank Edward Clarke, 1869

Watercolour drawing of a sawshark in side view with a long toothed snout, labelled Pristiophorus, Tasmania, 1866.

Pristiophorus nudipinnis (Tas)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1866

Watercolor of two sailing ships anchored in a tropical harbour with canoes, palm trees and figures on the beach.

'Discovery' and 'Resolution' at Tahiti

Pencil sketch of a homestead with fence and outbuildings beside a stream, flax in the foreground, trees and hills behind.

Mr Donald's Wairarapa

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolor landscape of trees on a hillside overlooking a distant hazy plain and small town under soft clouds.

Trees with distant landscape

Richard Redgrave, 1871

Sepia print of a knight in armor holding a banner, with a decorated shield, iris flowers and a river landscape.

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

Edward Burne-Jones, 1892

Hand-coloured print of a Sac warrior with face paint, a necklace, and a blanket against a pale blue background.

Nah-pope (The soup) A Sac warrior From: The natural history of Man by James Cowles Prichard

John Harris, 1842

Open sketchbook page with pencil handwriting in Dutch-style script reflecting on God as the true artist, numbered 8.

Text in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Brown wash drawing of a river scene with a church spire, trees, a sailing boat and a riverside building.

A Putney bridge

Etching of a shepherd playing a flute under a tree, surrounded by sheep and a goat, with a village in the distance.

A shepherd playing a flute

Paulus Potter, 1644

Drypoint print of a reclining woman with dark hair turning her head toward the viewer on a bed.

The artist's wife - Kranke Frau

Lovis Corinth, 1914

Pencil and watercolour botanical study of white flowers, fleshy leaves, and magnified stamens and pistil on cream paper.

Heliophyllum colensoi Hook.f. (now known as Phyllachne colensoi (Hook.f.) Berggr.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Etching of a damaged street with a tabac shopfront, cobblestones and shuttered windows, by Christopher Nevinson, 1917.

Survivors at Arras

C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917

Japanese woodblock print of a woman in a patterned kimono with a red fan, beside poem cards and a calligraphy scroll.

Poet no. 6: Chünagon (Ötomo no) Yakamochi, from the series Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred poems by one hundred poets)

Utagawa Kunisada, 1844

Etching of mounted spear-carrying riders passing through a dark arched gateway, with birds flying above a sunlit opening.

Fantasy

Marius Bauer, 1902

Watercolor of a mountain behind wooded hills, with a rocky river in the foreground under a pale sky.

Snowdon from Beddgelert

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1798

Engraved botanical print of a Rhabdothamnus solandri branch with serrated leaves and tubular flowers on cream paper.

Rhabdothamnus solandri Cunningham

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Abstract print of overlapping concentric circles and arcs in blue, green, orange, black and white, by Robert Delaunay.

Rythme/3

Robert Delaunay, 1938

Etching of a riverside town with a stone tower, arched bridge, and figures in boats with a horse in the foreground.

A town by the river

Marco Ricci, 1723

Engraved woodland landscape with a large tree, reeds and a river, and small figures fighting in the lower left corner.

The Good Samaritan

Watercolour of a harbour town below steep mountains, with sailing ships and a rowing boat on calm water.

Lyttelton, 1858

Brown ink and wash ceiling design of classical gods, putti and clouds, with a domed rotunda at upper left.

Ceiling design: Apollo, Saturn, Ceres and other gods

Fedele Fischetti

Etching of three women at a tea table, one holding up a lace cloth while another leans in and a third stands watching.

The gossip page

Salomon van Abbé, 1929

Botanical drawing of Earina mucronata with narrow leaves, flowering stems, root system and two enlarged flower details.

Earina mucronata Lindley

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Watercolor of bathers in shallow surf with a steamship smoking on the horizon under a cloudy sky.

Castlecliff

George Sherriff, 1929

Sepia print of two embracing women in flowing gowns beside a hooded figure holding scrolls, with a hilltop town behind.

Love Disguised as Reason. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1870

Turnagra capensis (South Island piopio). Formerly Turnagra crassinrostris (South Island thrush)

John Buchanan, 1865

Hand-coloured engraving of seated islanders honouring Captain Cook's officers before a thatched hut and palm trees.

Oneri divini fatti a Cook

Giovanni Sasso, 1820

Watercolour of a river winding through a valley below a craggy, forested mountain peak under a grey sky.

View of the valley of the Tyrol

George Heriot, 1818