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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2,725 works

Loose watercolor sketch of a standing uniformed man in a dark coat and tall cap against a muted brown background.

Dutch policeman

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil sketch of a group of veiled figures in long robes standing on open ground, with birds in the sky above.

Funeral group

Petrus van der Velden

Pencil sketch of a rocky stream winding through dense forest with tall trees and ferns, a small figure in the clearing.

Near Alexander's accommodation house

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a winding river through a valley with tawny hills and distant mountains under a pale sky.

River Clarence

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Hand painted plate of seven numbered moths and their caterpillars in watercolour on cream paper, numbered XIII.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XIII]

George Hudson, 1886

Panoramic pencil sketch of a lake with a large mountain at left and receding hills, with handwritten place notes.

Lake Pukaki, evening

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolour of cattle and a herder crossing a field at sunset, with bare trees on the right and birds in the sky.

At Claygate, Surrey

William Fox KCMG, 1899

Pencil botanical drawing of fern fronds on cream paper, with a separate frond showing round spore clusters underneath.

Hypolepis rufobarbata (Colenso) Wakefield

Sydney Parkinson, 1895

Pencil sketch of two sailing boats on calm water with a distant shoreline under a pale sky.

Dutch river scene

Petrus van der Velden

Watercolour of a rocky mountain stream flowing between boulders and green wooded slopes under a pale blue sky.

An alpine stream, Otira

Alfred Walsh, 1905

Watercolor of rugged cliffs and breaking surf along a pale shore under a cloudy sky, by William Marshall Cooper.

Slate Point

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Watercolor of a hilltop town on a cliff above trees, with hazy mountains behind it.

Corte, Corsica

Edward Lear, 1868

Etching of sailing barges moored in a calm harbour beside weathered sheds, with streaked clouds above.

Sunset at Heybridge basin

Martin Hardie, 1924

Etching of peasant figures in a rustic interior, one woman tending a child while a man sits and a boy squats nearby.

The five senses (smell)

Pencil drawing of a young boy seated and reading an open book beside hanging drapery, on toned paper.

Boy reading

Petrus van der Velden, 1906

Pastel drawing of a woman in a blue dress sewing by a window with green curtains and a potted plant.

Woman in blue

Mina Arndt, 1916

Watercolor drawing of two slender pipefish with handwritten measurement notes and a signature on cream paper.

Syngnathidae : Broad bodied Pipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Watercolor of Lake Apopka, Florida, with palmetto palms, bare trees, a calm lake and a cloudy sky.

Lake Apopka, Florida

Walter Crane, 1892

Brown wash drawing of a stormy coastal scene with a sailing boat, figures on the shore, and a smoking cottage on rocks.

Coastal scene with cottage

Hand-coloured oval print of a seated woman carving into a tree trunk, with a crook and two sheep beside her.

Erminia

Angelica Kauffmann, 1781

Watercolor of a round tower with a red conical roof beside a waterfront, with small figures and a rowboat.

Waterfront

David Cox the elder, 1858

Brown wash drawing of horses and soldiers standing and sitting on a grassy hilltop under a pale sky.

Picquet-sunset

Loose pencil sketch of hills and a steep ridge with dark horizontal strokes at the base, on a tan sketchbook page numbered 49

Sketch of landforms in An 1893 sketchbook

Petrus van der Velden, 1893

Pencil drawing of ruined Gothic arches of St. Mary's Abbey, York, with trees and a small figure in the foreground.

St. Mary's Abbey, York

John Sell Cotman, 1803

Watercolor of fishing boats with brown and cream sails and nets drawn up on a sandy beach under a pale sky.

Southwold - a study of sails

Walter Crane, 1886

Black and white woodcut of the Nativity with Mary holding the infant Jesus, a kneeling figure, and an ox beside a bright open

Nativity in cave

Eric Gill, 1916

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a red-roofed cottage in a clearing with trees, hills and a small cart.

Fern House, Hutt River

George Frederick Swainson, 1850

Watercolor of a snow-capped mountain above a braided river valley with rocks and tussock grass in the foreground.

Mt. Cook from Tasman Valley

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1891

Etching of a river landscape with trees, a ruined tower on a hill, a rowing boat, and figures on the bank.

Landscape after a drawing by Salvator Rosa

David Read, 1834

Watercolor of cattle resting on sand near mountains and water, with a sailboat and cloudy sky, signed J.C. Burgess 1861.

Cattle on the sands near Port Madoc, North Wales

John Cart Burgess, 1861