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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Watercolor of a Gothic cathedral with tall towers behind hedges, a wooden gate, and cottages on a rural road.

Rochester Cathedral

C R Cotton, 1872

Watercolour of surf breaking on a rocky coast beneath a dark rock outcrop under a misty, overcast sky.

A wet day on a wild coast

William Hodgkins, 1894

Watercolour of surf breaking around dark sea stacks beside a green cliff and pebbled beach under an overcast sky.

Sketchbook no. 4

William Baker, 1900

Lithograph of a stooped adult carrying a bundle walking a country road with a child, haystacks and trees behind.

Les Trimardeurs (The vagabonds)

Camille Pissarro, 1896

Loose charcoal sketch of a man in a cap walking beside a horse pulling a cart across an open field.

Sketch of man with horse in An 1891 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1891

Black and white etching of a harbour with sailing boats, a steamship, figures on a quay, and an iron balcony railing.

The balcony, Dieppe

C. R. W. Nevinson, 1929

Watercolour of a curving forest road with tall trees, cleared stumps on the right, small figures and tents, and blue hills in

Turning of the new Hutt road at Taita

Francis Dillon Bell, 1850

Loose pencil sketch on a sketchbook page showing a seated figure with raised hands and studies of limbs.

Pencil sketch of figure in A wellington sketchbook c1908-12

Petrus van der Velden, 1908

Etching of a figure seated on an arched bridge above a gondola in a canal, flanked by tall old buildings.

Il Paradiso

Sydney Mackenzie Litten, 1928

Pencil sketch of a bearded monk in a long robe, standing with one hand raised to his face beside a ledge.

Two studies of a monk: 1. Standing with hand on table. 2. Kneeling at prayer

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Watercolour landscape of a calm lake with a rocky headland, trees, and misty purple hills under a pink-tinged sky.

Landscape

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1844

Panoramic pen and wash drawing of a riverside town with houses, hills, boats on water, and scrub in the foreground.

Panorama of the town of Whanganui

John Alexander Gilfillan, 1847

Etching of rolling hills, hedgerows and a farmhouse among trees under a cloudy sky.

Cathlaw in March

Henry Brown, 1927

Watercolor of an old mill with chimneys and tiled roof, half hidden by trees beside a stream under a cloudy sky.

The old mill

Sepia lithograph of Cheviot Hills station: a gabled homestead among trees, grazing cattle in a meadow, and distant hills.

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Plate IV. Cheviot Hills station

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Engraved pastoral scene of a rider with cattle, sheep, dogs and a woman beside a tree, with a river and tower behind.

Evening, a composition

Edward Goodall, 1832

Hand-coloured print of two sailing ships in a bay, armed boats and a crowd on a palm-lined shore before mountains.

A view of Owhyhee, one of the Sandwich Islands

John Cleveley Junior, 1787

Etching of a bearded man with tousled hair, head bowed and resting on his hand in a contemplative pose.

The philosopher

Hermann Struck, 1901

Sepia lithograph panorama of North East Valley near Dunedin, showing houses, fences, flax and hills with a bay.

North East Valley, near Dunedin

William Meluish, 1862

Hand-painted plate XI showing numbered insects: moths, caterpillars, larvae and pupal cases, with scale bars and ink leaf stu

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate XI]

George Hudson, 1904

Pencil study of a seated man with a wrap and staff, with smaller sketches of head, limbs and cloth on pale paper.

Studies of a man with blanket and staff: 1. Seated. 2. Standing

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Platycephalus bassensis

Frank Edward Clarke, 1869

Watercolor still life of a green jug, pears, a bowl of eggs, a shell and budding willow branches on draped cloth.

Still life with eggs and willow

Frances Hodgkins, 1929

Sepia engraving of many uniformed officers with medals gathered in an ornate room with framed paintings.

The Waterloo heroes assembled at Apsley House

Charles Lewis, 1841

Pen and ink sketch of a standing woman, a seated figure and dogs beside a doorway, with handwritten text below.

The Duchess of Sutherland with dogs

Francis Grant, 1860

Coloured lithograph of a lake plain with cattle, a horseback rider, native trees in the foreground and distant mountains unde

New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. Wairarapa Lake

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1877

Engraving of many nude putti tumbling and intertwined over a hatched background, one holding a sprig of flowers.

Tumbling putti

Palma il Giovane, 1611

Engraving of the Odd Fellows Hall in Wellington with Ionic columns, a pediment, men in the street, a horse and cart.

Odd Fellows Hall, Wellington. New Zealand

Etched sketch of two kneeling figures in long coats praying before candles near a cave at Lourdes, by Jean Forain.

Lourdes. Imploring before the grotto

Jean-Louis Forain, 1912

Etching of people with umbrellas walking along a rainy pier toward a ship under a stormy sky with birds.

Un debarquement en Angleterre (Landing in England)

Félix-Hilaire Buhot, 1879