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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Sepia print of a seated young girl with curly hair in a white dress with lace collar, hands clasped, bare feet, dark backgrou

Portrait of Miss Dorothy Drew. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1893

Pencil sketch of a rustic courtyard under a sloping timber roof, with seated figures, a dog, a goat, and a hillside behind.

In Toledo

John Lewis, 1832

Lithograph of Lake Manapouri with mountains rising behind wooded islands, a forested shore, and cattle grazing in the foregro

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate V. Lake Manapouri

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Watercolor landscape of leaning birch and tall trees, a grazing cow by a stone wall, and rolling fields with a farm.

In the Cotswolds

Averil Burleigh

Watercolor of a valley with a winding lake, golden plain, wooded foreground and blue hills under a cloudy sky.

Wairarapa Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolor of two fishermen tending nets in a blue coble on a sandy beach, with seagulls over the shallow sea.

Yorkshire coble

Engraved print of a woman in traditional dress carrying branches on her head beside a stone wall and hilly landscape.

Female of Civita Castellana

Richard Bridgens, 1820

Pencil sketch of a bearded rider with a rifle on his back, seated on a horse beside low scrub.

Our artist

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1868

Watercolor study of two red spotted lily flowers on slender green stems against a pale grey-blue wash.

Untitled [Lilium viginium?]

Fanny Richardson

Color woodcut of a white peacock with a long tail standing on a red and brown rock against a grey sky.

White peacock

Hans Frank, 1910

Watercolour landscape of a grassy hillside with a cow and bare tree overlooking a blue lake and snowy mountains.

Wellington, Thorndon Flat, Tararua

James Crowe Richmond

Etching of a farmer bending at a doorway to catch chickens while a woman in a bonnet watches beside a thatched hut.

Le Poulailler, Vendée: "Attrape le plus Gras!" (The poulterer, Vendée: "Catch the fattest one.")

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1908

Hand-colored plate with two islander portraits above numbered sketches of feathered headdresses, a collar, a fan, and a club.

Abitatori ornamenti ec (Marquesas Islands)

Andrea Bernieri, 1843

Etching of Chelsea riverside at low tide with moored barges, old houses, a church tower, and an inn sign.

The "Adam and Eve", Old Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Grey wash drawing of a waterfall over cliffs above a lake, with a small sailboat and trees along the shore.

Untitled. (Lake Wakatipu)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a standing figure in a long robe with simplified face and hands at the waist, on pale paper.

Untitled - preparatory drawing for 'The marriage at Cana'

Winifred Knights, 1922

Pen and watercolour drawing of a thatched water mill with a waterwheel, a man carrying a sack, a loaded cart and geese by a p

Water mill

Charles Tompkins

Engraving of Christ praying on a rock as an angel appears above, while three disciples sleep in the foreground.

The Agony in the Garden, plate 2 from The Passion of Christ

Hendrick Goltzius, 1597

Watercolor drawing of a spiny anglerfish seen from above, with a wide mouth and a long dangling lure.

Himantolophus appelii (NZ) - dorsal view : Prickly anglerfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Watercolor drawing of a flying fish with spread fins, with detail sketches of the head top and protracted jaws.

Danichthys cribrosus (NZ) : Flyfish fish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1882

Black woodcut of a crowd of top-hatted men pressing toward the ED. Sagot shop on a Paris street.

Print fanciers

Félix Vallotton

Hand-coloured lithograph of Port Lyttleton harbour with anchored sailing ships, a small town and surrounding hills, 1857.

Port Lyttleton [sic], Canterbury

Vincent Brooks, 1857

Hand-coloured print of two brown streaked fernbirds perched on green stems against pale blue leaves, 1873.

Fernbird (Sphenoeacus punctatus)/ Chatham Islands fernbird (Spenoeacus rufescens)

Johannes Keulemans, 1873

Pencil sketch of a woman in a blouse and beaded necklace, raising one hand, dated 1921.

Self portrait

Gertrud Kauders, 1921

Watercolor of New Plymouth settlement with houses, fenced fields, hilltop stockade and a conical mountain in the distance.

New Plymouth, Taranaki

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Etching of a wide river flanked by dark trees under a pale sky, with a small boat on the water at right.

The Tay

David Young Cameron, 1912

Sepia reproduction of Burne-Jones's Theophilus and the Angel: a haloed angel beside a robed man in a square with a bronze sta

Theophilus and the Angel: A Legend of the Matryrdom of St. Dorothea. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1863

Watercolour of a rocky beach with a tall conical rock, green hills, calm sea and a distant steamship under a pale sky.

The ruin of Paritutu

Dr Andrew Carbery CBE

Pencil sketch of the stranded wreck Montezuma on a sandy beach at Hokitika, with waves and distant ships.

Wreck of the Montezuma, Hokitika

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Etching of a three-masted ship heeling in rough seas under a windswept, streaked sky.

Hove to

Arthur Briscoe, 1929