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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a man reclining on a bed against a pink wall and yellow curtain.

Watercolour sketch of Hans Kauders

Gertrud Kauders, 1905

Hazy sketch of a London street with a central statue, red double-decker buses, pedestrians and classical buildings.

Piccadilly, London

Japanese woodblock print of samurai confronting a swordsman beside a castle moat under a red sun, with a pagoda behind.

Kanadehon Chushingura (A Treasury of Loyal Retainers): Act 4 Hangan Seppuku (Suicide of Enya Hangan)

Keisai Eisen, 1820

Watercolour of a fern-filled forest creek with a leaning tree trunk over rocks and shallow water.

Creek at Holmes Bay, Banks Peninsula (fuschia trees)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch in a sketchbook of a standing couple in an interior with a bed or table and a reclining figure.

Couple in interior in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Hand-colored print of two Native Californian figures, a woman with a bun and a man with a beard, in striped garments.

Natives of California. From: The Natural History of Man by James Cowles Prichard

Hippolyte Baillière, 1842

Engraving of Adam and Eve fleeing with an angel holding a sword behind them, in a landscape with trees.

The expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise

Giacomo Piccini, 1656

Etching of a bare-shouldered woman with bowed head and dark hair, rendered in dense hatched lines.

Byst

Anders Zorn, 1916

Watercolor landscape of a lake, wooded hills, a smoking volcano and two small figures on a grassy foreground.

Landscape

William Sawrey Gilpin

Sketch of a painter at an easel in a field with blue trees, a crouching figure, and a hatched foreground.

Sketching, Berkshire

Raymond McIntyre, 1915

Watercolor landscape of a cottage with brick chimneys among tall trees, with a grassy field and cloudy sky.

Landscape with trees and cottage

David Cox the elder

Sketch with cows head in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Chromolithograph of a speckled salmon leaping from a river with a fishing line in its mouth, rocks and grass behind.

The California salmon

Samuel Kilbourne, 1879

Engraved oval portrait of Captain James Cook in naval uniform with lace cravat, inscribed in a cartouche below.

Captain James Cook F.R.S.

James Basire the Elder, 1777

Pencil sketch of vehicles and figures on a mountain road with hills behind, on a numbered sketchbook page.

Sketch of vehicles passing on mountain road in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Watercolour drawing of a stone church with a crenellated tower and gothic windows, framed by a tree under a cloudy sky.

Abbey Dore, Herefordshire

Watercolour landscape of a river bend lined with willows and gum trees, a wooden fence, and distant hills under a pale sky.

Sketchbook no. 2

William Baker, 1900

Pencil and blue wash sketch of wooded hills rising above a calm creek with a small bridge, on a cream sheet.

Untitled (Mahinapua creek, south spit landing, Hokitika)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of golden hills and a wide plain with distant snow-capped mountains under a pale blue sky.

The Five Rivers Plains and the course of River Oreti, Southland

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pentaceros richardsoni

Frank Edward Clarke

Japanese woodblock print of cherry blossom viewing on a green hill, with crowds, parasols and two riders on horseback.

Asukayama Hanami (Cherry Blossom Viewing at Asukayama). From the series Kōto meishō (Famous views of the eastern capi…

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1950

Engraved portrait of a man with curled hair and lace cravat, with a naval battle scene in a cartouche below.

Edward Russel, Earl of Orford

Etching of a sailing barge and rowboat on calm water with reflections and masts in the distance.

Evening on the Zuyder Zee

Sydney Mackenzie Litten, 1930

Watercolour of snow-capped mountains above a braided river valley, with riders on horseback on a wooded hillside in the foreg

View of Mt. Aspiring, Province of Otago, looking north up the Valley of Matekitiki River from Dr Hector's camp of 1863

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1866

Pencil sketchbook page with an interior study, hanging objects, a table, and a loosely drawn standing figure in a shawl.

Various sketches. From: A Marken sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1871

Etching of an elderly bearded man with a bald head, his hand raised to his temple, in a pensive pose.

"A little deaf" (Cornish fisherman)

Mina Arndt, 1910

Watercolor and ink drawing of a hillside with a large tree, blue hedges and small cottages with chimneys.

Hillside with cottages

Raymond McIntyre, 1915

Earth waiting

Eric Gill, 1926

Black and white print of a windmill behind a ruined arched stone gateway, with cattle grazing on flat marshland.

East view, gateway of St. Benet's Abbey

John Sell Cotman, 1813

Pencil drawing of a tree fern with arching fronds rising above dense bush and foliage on a cream sheet.

Mamaku, Taranaki

James Crowe Richmond, 1851