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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Hand-coloured botanical print of paper mulberry with broad leaves, red spiky fruit heads and a yellow catkin.

Broussonetia papyrifera

John Curtis, 1822

Watercolor drawing of a woman with a fowl, a woman and child on a donkey, and a seated man sketching under trees.

Sketching a country woman

Thomas Rowlandson

Watercolor sketch of a hillside camp with rows of white tents, thatched huts, a dirt road and scrub vegetation.

Camp at Pungarehu

George Sherriff, 1881

Panoramic watercolour of a lake among mountains, with small figures on a foreground ridge and a pale sky above.

Lake Wanaka

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of soldiers hauling cannons across a sandy plain below a fortress and mountain, with cavalry and fallen men.

Military manoeuvre

Etching of robed figures and a ladder on bare ground, with bearded men at right and kneeling figures at left.

Le Calvaire (Calvary)

Jean-Louis Forain, 1909

Colour woodcut of a snowy mountain behind a hillside with bare trees, rocks, and red shrubs in tan and blue tones.

Mountain landscape

Hans Frank, 1945

Printed page of black letter text with red initial capitals and a running head, from the Polychronicon.

Polychronicon

Engraving of a winged putto holding a globe above clouds and a village of farmhouses and trees, dated 1520.

A genius on a globe flying above a landscape

Barthel Beham, 1520

Grey wash drawing of snow-capped mountains over a valley, with a man and two dogs in grassland and a fenced farm.

Mts Copland & Lyttle from Ryan's station in Cook Valley

George Sturtevant, 1896

Etching of sailors furling a sail on a sailing ship's yard, with rigging lines and choppy sea below.

Furling the foresail

Arthur Briscoe, 1924

Etching of a bridge over a river with moored boats, a church tower and trees on the far bank.

Chelsea

James McNeill Whistler, 1879

Pencil drawing of tall trees and bush beside an open clearing, with faint trunks receding at the left.

Bush at Eglinton, Te Anau Lake

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Engraved landscape of a shepherd with goats beside a waterfall and fallen tree in a dense forest.

Waterfall with shepherd and four goats. Plate 1. From a set of six landscapes

Aegidius Sadeler, 1610

Watercolor drawing of a ruined stone arched cross in a village street, with figures, cottages and a church tower behind.

Cross at Cheddar

George Shepheard

Pencil sketch in a sketchbook of two gulls flying over a horizontal sea with a soft glow near the horizon.

Pencil sketch of gulls in a Wellington sketchbook, c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Etching of a hooded monk with a weathered face beside a bare branch with small buds, on a pale background.

A monk praying, St. Francis

Francis Haden, 1877

Engraving of apostles baptising a crowd in a courtyard, with a dove descending in light from clouds above.

The Apostles baptising in Jerusalem. From: The Acts of the Apostles, plate 4

Philips Galle, 1575

Pencil sketch of a thatched cottage on a rough road with hills and a peaked mountain behind, on tan paper.

Sketch of cottage with hills and road in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Etching of a city skyline with church spires and rooftops under billowing clouds, framed by dark trees in the foreground.

Out of study window

Francis Haden, 1859

Watercolour of a rowboat on a grassy shore beside a calm lake, with rocky islets and hazy mountains in the distance.

L Manipori [sic] upper end with rocky islets Evening

John Gully, 1887

Engraving of the Holy Family: Saint Joseph with a staff, Mary beside a palm tree, and the infant Christ between them.

The Holy Family

Alessandro Badiale

Pencil sketch of rooftops and a chimney on a sketchbook page, with soft hatched shading.

Pencil sketch of rooftops in A Wellington sketchbook, 1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Sepia print of a sleeping knight in armour with a winged angel watching from a stone doorway, a horse and shield nearby.

The Dream of Launcelot at the Chapel of the San Grael. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1896

Pencil sketch of a river crossing with a rowboat, shallow water, and distant mountains under clouds, with handwritten colour

Crossing the Teremakau between Hokitika and the Greymouth

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Sketch of seated figure in A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1905

Sketch of a shepherd in a hat holding a lamb beside hurdles, with sheep grazing at his feet in a farm pen.

The ewe pen, (Cotswold)

Archibald Hartrick, 1903

Lithograph of a nude woman reaching into a leafy tree in a shaded woodland, drawn in soft grey hatching.

Eve

Henri Fantin-Latour, 1896

Pencil notes, addresses and a printed Reeves cartridge paper label on the inner cover of a Wellington sketchbook.

Inner front cover from A Wellington sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Watercolour of a rocky pebble beach with two standing figures, cliffs at left, and a calm sea under cloudy sky.

Walton Castle, Felixstowe

Francis Grose, 1766