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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Engraved view of Wellington wharf with sailing ships, a large warehouse, figures on a dirt quay and hills beyond.

Post Office, Wharf and Queen's Warehouse

Edward Smallwood Richards

Sepia lithograph of the Bay of Islands entrance with a flagged mast, rocky headland, figures, and sailing ships on calm water

Entree de la baie des iles (Nouvelle Zelande)

Louis Le Breton, 1862

Watercolor of a river with a stone arched bridge, riverside houses, a poling boatman, and wooded hills under a pale sky.

Kelso, Scotland

Thomas Girtin, 1801

Grey wash drawing of a glacier between snowy peaks, with two small figures on rocks in the foreground.

Cuttance Glacier, looking over Straunchon Glacier

George Sturtevant

Etching of St. Mary's church in Nottingham with a tall tower, large windows, and gravestones in the churchyard.

St. Mary's, Nottingham

Frederick Griggs, 1928

Muted watercolor of a cottage with smoking chimney, a cow on a path, and hills under a hazy sky.

Landscape with cottage

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1850

Sepia print of a mythological banquet with draped figures serving a long table, nude musicians in the foreground, and a mount

The Feast of Peleus. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1972

Grey wash sketch of a seated hooded figure at a table, with two standing figures and a skull beside a dark panel.

The tormentors

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolour of an estuary town with white tents, a sailing boat, forested hills and cloudy sky.

Shortland, Thames

John Hoyte, 1868

Lithograph of a hairdresser combing a woman's golden hair while she holds a mirror, with theatre programme text at upper left

Le coiffeur

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893

Oval engraving of a woman sketching in a book beside a draped marble bust and classical columns.

Design

Angelica Kauffmann, 1780

Woodcut of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with riders on horses trampling figures below an angel in clouds.

The Four Horsemen. From: The Apocalpyse

Albrecht Dürer, 1497

Ink and wash sketch of a rider on horseback with a standing man and a seated dog, with handwritten notes below.

Equestrian portrait with two dogs

Francis Grant, 1860

Ink drawing of a turtle crawling over rocks and grass on pale paper, with calligraphy and red seals.

Turtle

Taira Natasaka, 1780

Abstract landscape of angular grey and blue ruin forms, distant mountains, water and scribbled clouds, with red accents.

Ruins

Frances Hodgkins, 1937

Sepia reproduction of a pensive young man in classical robes beside nude figures on a pedestal and women in an archway.

The Heart Desires. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1878

Watercolor of a shaded lane by a river with large trees, a stone wall, a wooden gate and distant hills.

Lane by river, Bettws-Y-Coed, North Wales

John Steeple, 1884

Watercolour of three cows in a snowy field by a stream, one sheltering under a snow-covered thatched roof.

Cows in winter

Henry Willis, 1853

Black and white etching of two roosters in combat, one with wings spread and beak open, the other lunging forward.

Cockfight

John Buckland-Wright, 1939

Pencil sketch of a dirt road through tall trees, with cottages and a hill in the distance and a seated figure by a rocky bank

At the Mungaroa Bridge, Upper Hutt

William Swainson FLS FRS

Print of two elderly women in dark dresses standing and walking among gnarled trees in a shaded grove.

The olive grove

John Singleton Copley, 1895

Grey wash drawing of a crenellated mansion above trees, with cattle, sheep, a staff-carrying man and dog by water.

An English Mansion

Julius Caesar Ibbetson

Hyporhamphus melanochir (Tas) : Southern Sea Garfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1869

Art Nouveau poster by Jan Toorop, 1895: two profiled women with flowing black hair, theatre masks and a cast list.

Venise Sauvee (Venice Preserv'd)

Jan Toorop, 1895

Watercolour of a mountain lake with snowy peaks, autumn trees, and a figure with a dog on the shore.

Mountain lake

Two dark birds fly before a pale full moon, with bare plum branches below and vertical Japanese calligraphy on the left.

Two birds and the Moon

Shinsai Ryūryūkyo, 1799

Pencil sketch of a hillside convent with trees and rocky ground, inscribed 'Convent of Pallazzola Oct. 1833'.

Convent of Pallazzaola

William Henry Fox Talbot

Drawing of two seated children, a girl in a white dress with curled hair and a boy in striped trousers, on a tufted cushion.

Untitled [The children of Edward Gibbon Wakefield]

Etching of a shaggy bear walking on rocky ground with hills and two birds in the sky behind it.

The set of the bears. Untitled plate 14

Marcus de Bye, 1664

Watercolor of a rocky forest river with tall trees, mossy banks, two small figures on the left, and distant hills.

Forest river

John Smith, 1786