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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Grey botanical drawing of a slender orchid with a spike of small flowers and fine roots on cream paper.

Prasophyllum striatum R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Pencil and wash drawing of a red-coated huntsman on a grey horse raising a whip, with a hound behind in tall grass.

The huntsman

Japanese print of a red pipe case, tobacco pouch, round striped box and small blue book with calligraphy above.

Pipe case with tobacco pouch and a box. Farewell gift for the horse, from A selection of horses

Katsushika Hokusai, 1822

Engraved botanical plate of a flowering Correa branch with tubular blossoms and a dissection of flower parts.

Correa reflexa (Labillardiere) Ventenat var. reflexa

Sydney Parkinson

Loose pencil scribbles and gestural lines across a cream sketchbook page, with a dark shaded mark at left.

Page from A Wellington sketchbook; scribbles

Petrus van der Velden, 1907

Grey botanical drawing of a branching plant with narrow leaves and round bristly flower heads on a cream sheet.

Borreria capitata de Candolle

Sydney Parkinson

Grayscale botanical drawing of a flowering branch with pinnate leaves and small pea-type flowers on cream paper.

Indigofera pratensis F. Mueller

Sydney Parkinson

Black and white botanical print of a climbing vine with heart-shaped leaves and clusters of white flowers.

Temnadenia violacea (Vellozo) Miers

Sydney Parkinson

Red chalk sketch of a hooded figure climbing with a long staff, with loose diagonal hatching and a draped cloth at right.

Two studies of a Moroccan soldier: 1. Climbing with staff. 2. Poised with staff

Petrus van der Velden, 1867

Botanical print of a small rosette plant with slender stems and tiny white flowers, centred on a cream sheet with handwritten

Stylidium rotundifolium R. Brown

Sydney Parkinson

Watercolor of a row of stone terraced houses beside a river with a small weir, green hills and cloudy sky behind.

Yorkshire village

Robert Jamieson

Grey wash drawing of two rock slabs bearing fossil fern fronds, with handwritten identification labels below.

Fossil plant specimen. Hymenophyllite or Trichomanites

John Buchanan, 1864

Engraved botanical plate of a flowering branch with pointed leaves and clusters of stamen-tipped flowers.

Melaleuca viridifolia Solander ex Gaertner

Sydney Parkinson

Etching of ruined Kilgaren Castle on a hillside above trees and a river, with loose hatched sky.

Kilgaren Castle

Francis Haden, 1864

Grey wash drawing of snowy mountain peaks and a glacier descending through a valley under a cloudy sky.

Mounts Sefton and Thompson with Fitzgerald Glacier from Douglas Pass

George Sturtevant, 1895

Engraving of hunters shooting arrows at unicorns in a forest, one unicorn fallen in the foreground, mountains behind.

Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium (Hunts of wild animals, birds and fish). Plate 29. Unicorn hunt

Jan Collaert the Younger, 1596

Sepia ink and wash drawing of a stone church on a hill with grazing cows, a pale path, and trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with church

Reverend William Bree

Portrait of the artist

Alphonse Legros, 1905

Sepia print of a nude figure on a pedestal with a horned head, flanked by skeletal pillars and a crouching beast on steps.

L'Idole (The Idol)

Félicien Rops, 1880

Hand-colored engraving of a walled burial ground with carved posts, palm trees and hills, labeled Morai o cimitero d'Atooi.

Morai o cimitero d'Atooi (Kauau Island, Hawaii)

Andrea Bernieri

Watercolor of Laon's St Martin church with soldiers, a cannon and horses on a street, townspeople and a shop sign.

Church of St Martin, Laon

Francis Philip Barraud, 1894

Possibly Cristiceps sp (Tas) : Weedfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Pencil drawing of two children with a small dog on a leash, one holding a toy duck on a stick, on a tiled floor.

Children with a dog

Christopher Wood, 1925

Watercolor portrait of a woman in a white veil and striped shawl, glancing over her shoulder beside a doorway and foliage.

Portrait miniature (Woman with a veil)

Engraving of a nude man reaching toward a reclining naiad in water, with a winged cupid and a small tree beside her.

A naked man pursuing a naiad. From: Ancient bas-reliefs

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1515

Monochrome print of St. George fighting a dragon while a kneeling woman in white prays nearby in a wooded landscape.

St. George Slaying the Dragon. From the portfolio: The Work of E. Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones, 1866

Pencil sketchbook page with handwritten companion names and loose sketches of an implement.

Names of companions and sketch in an Otira sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Panoramic pencil drawing of a lake ringed by mountains, with trees and wooded hills in the foreground.

Untitled (Lake Manapouri)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Pencil sketch of a reclining man in a cap by a ship's rail, with a small sailing boat on the water below.

Untitled - Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a weathered wooden cottage beside a curving road, with forested hills and mountains behind under a cloudy sky.

Old cottage, Arthur's Pass

Margaret Stoddart